Amazon is a leader in developing first of its kind hardware, such as Kindle, Echo and FireTV. Amazon reliability team aims to develop reliable and robust products that delight our customers. In this role, as a Sr. Hardware Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for the reliability engineering of our new and emerging category of devices – Kuiper Customer Terminal. Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to un-served and under-served communities around the world. As a Senior Safety engineer on the Kuiper Customer Terminal products, you will be developing new safety specifications, performing safety validation, safety fault identification amongst others. You should have a good understanding of Design for Safety & Reliability, Safety/Reliability statistics, Safety & Compliance Electrical tests and/or solid understanding of indoor and outdoor consumer electronics to influence design for safety to:

Key job responsibilities
- Perform safety assessments such as Functional Hazard Assessments (FHAs), System Safety Assessments (PSSAs), System Safety Assessments (SSAs), Fault Tree Analysis (FTAs), Common Mode Analyses (CMAs), Single Fault Analysis and Testing

- Perform safety related tests and also coach lab engineers to scale capabilities.

- Analyze electrical schematics for vulnerabilities, Thermal/Power Model Analysis for Total Dissipated Power (TDP), and identify mitigations assure product safety & reliability.

- Drive actions and resolutions with Product Design teams (mechanical, electrical, legal & reliability), to deliver on Amazon's product safety goals.

- Perform reliability & safety probabilistic prediction of failure mechanisms such as Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs) on products under development and products in the field


- Incorporate lessons learned into the reliability and safety knowledge base, and into roadmap programs.

- Champion the cause of safety and develop tools and processes for Safety as needed

A day in the life
You will deploy your depth and strong understanding of safety &/or reliability, electrical and mechanical failure analysis techniques. You will interface with a world-class staff of Product Designers, Electrical Engineers, Reliability Engineers, external Suppliers/Partners, amongst others. You will deliver your best work while driving product definition for safe, reliable products. You will be in a highly technical space, be empathetic, a mentor and coach, and above all of - the Safety Champion for Amazon's Customers.