The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo

What will you help us create?

The Role:

As a Senior Power Engineer, you will be responsible for owning the power and energy consumption models, provide inputs to power architecture and conduct power consumption characterization on multiple projects. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary groups including Product Design, Industrial Design, Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Reliability and Operations, to drive key aspects of engineering of consumer electronics products. You will conduct testing and optimization cycles of complex embedded systems in different use-cases. You will be expected to write/update code to interface lab equipment to computers and write scripts to automate the testing. The ideal candidate should have a solid understanding of power engineering, analog electronics and microprocessor architecture.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will:

Interact with cross functional engineering teams across the company

Dive deep into power related issues and work with cross functional teams to solve them

Participate in schematic and layout reviews

Address all aspects of power technology readiness, including manufacturability.

Help design and deliver innovative power technology to products.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.

- 7+ years of experience as a hardware or systems engineer.

- Experience with schematic and layout tools similar to OrCAD and Allegro.

- Experience with Lab Equipment such as Oscilloscopes, DC Analyzers and DAQ systems

- Experience debugging power issues on embedded electronics devices

- Experience using LDOs, SMPS and power distribution in embedded systems or power and energy consumption modelling and optimization

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production

- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

- Experience with the project management of technical projects

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $128,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $213,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.