Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineer’s high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Fire phone, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

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Amazon Design Technologies is a multi-disciplinary team that provides design software/services, develops enterprise software applications, product data management (PDM), Computer Aided Design (CAD), Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) solutions, systems platforms and design processes to our Product Development, New Technology, Operations and Manufacturing teams.

We are looking for an experienced Mechanical Product Design Engineer, who will be responsible for the mechanical design, development and quality of products. You will take responsibility for leading project teams, technical problem solving, creatively meeting product objectives, at times delegating tasks to achieve objectives and mentoring junior engineers. You will demonstrate cross-functional resource interaction to accomplish goals. You will play a role in defining processes and methods to improve the productivity of the entire team. You will identify and initiate investigations of production technologies, prototype and test solutions for product features, and design and validate production designs that deliver an exceptional user experience.

Key job responsibilities
You will demonstrate a strong working knowledge of mechanical systems, with expertise in systems integration, the desire to learn from new challenges and the problem solving and communication skills to work within a highly interactive and experienced team. You must show a hands-on passion for your work and be able to communicate your ideas and concepts both verbally and visually. You must demonstrate an ability to integrate feedback and to respond quickly to changing contexts and work environments. In this role, you will:

* Feature design and testing to meet program objective
* Test failure analysis and solution validation to complete successful product development
* Provide detail part design and product documentation
* Field failure analysis and solution evaluation for production product issues
* Research into materials and component technologies to scope development opportunities
* Lead project teams to timely delivery of products
* Lead the end-to-end design process from concept to implementation
* Schedule and milestone management
* Apply technical expertise to problem solving throughout product lifecycle
* Mentor junior engineers in good product design practice