Lab Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering

DESCRIPTION

As a Lab Engineer, you will be working on prototyping Amazon's new exciting products. You will be hands-on in designing, fabricating fixtures, panel building, operating lab equipment and maintaining lab space. Key job responsibilities
* Design, set up and maintain assembly fixtures to build products
* Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, controls systems as part of assembly machines
* Knowledgeable in Industrial communication protocols i.e., Ethernet/IP, MODbus, EtherCAT etc., and electrical components
* Contribute to engineering efforts from design to implementation, solving complex technical challenges around engineering
* Drive adoption of best practices in lab prototyping
* Manage equipment stock, procure lab equipment
* Participate in lab on-call rotation to ensure lab equipment uptime meets SLA
* Provide lab services to people working remotely (be the eyes and hands in the lab)
* Provide technical support to customers using the lab A day in the life
The successful applicant will be experienced in keeping technical infrastructure running smoothly and balancing high priority issues. You should be comfortable taking on ambiguous challenges like setting up new pre-production hardware for the first time. You should be able to define standard operating procedures, metrics and alarms to keep the infrastructure highly available and expand technical capabilities over time. You will be invaluable to enabling the team to move quickly and confidently with robust infrastructure that scales with our customers. About the team
Highly skilled individuals working collaboratively to solve complex issues and coming up with new ways to improve the overall product design to delight our customers. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: San Jose, CA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

* Experience in manufacturing or lab operations
* Experience in organizing and maintaining manufacturing shop floor or lab facility
* Experience in resource planning, managing schedules, reporting project status
* Manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to interact efficiently with peers and customers.
* Highly organized and autonomous, very detail oriented and willing to learn new skills.