Job Description
Amazon develops innovative consumer-centric product solutions. As a reliability engineer you will be part of an exciting team developing, testing, and delivering products. Your primary responsibility will be the development and implementation of methodologies/techniques to enhance product reliability. You will work closely internal cross-functional teams and outside partners to drive and execute product qualification. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
The reliability engineer will be responsible for:
- Create reliability test plans including resource allocations, validation schedule assumptions, and validation items scope.
- Manage the local CM team on reliability resource planning, test execution, failure analysis, and track the issues from creation to closure.
- Implement specific validation items in reliability test plans with schedule. Flexible adjustment should be made based on issue occurring and debugging.
- Lead and drive on DFMEA, debugging, failure analysis, DOEs and fixing issues discovered during testing.
- Evaluate and develop reliability test methodologies to reduce test time and increase test coverage.
- Evaluate reliability risks, perform risk assessment and do escalations to management team.
- Travel extensively in Vietnam and Asia to support reliability activities.
- Travel to US for team collaboration or training.
Key job responsibilities
- As a Reliability Engineer (RE), the primary responsibility will be the development and implementation of methodologies/techniques to enhance product reliability and manage reliability activities.
- The RE will lead the reliability engineering and operations activities through the device execution phase process, accountable for managing new device programs and sustaining programs through the company’s development.
- The RE will work closely with internal cross-functional teams and outside partners to drive and execute product qualification and failure analysis.
- The RE will drive the configuration management deliverables to ensure the timely release of all device components and assemblies to production.
- The RE will also assist CM management team in enhancing local infrastructure and capability, including lab construction, testing and FA capability, and assist with cross functional team activities to ensure the right level of engagement from reliability.
- The RE needs to have strong logical capabilities to summarize failures, solid statistical knowledge to perform risk assessments, and good judgment to provide team recommendations during failure escalations.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above in electrical engineering, material engineering, mechanical engineering or related fields.
- 5+ years experience as an engineering lead or engineering project manager.
- Good understanding of the principles and basic structures of measuring instruments such as HALT, chambers, oscilloscopes, multimeters etc.
- Strong technical problem solving skills and experience with failure analysis techniques.
- Strong team work spirit, team leader preferred.
- Excellent bi-lingual (Chinese & English) written and verbal communication skills required.
- Strong communication and leadership skills required.
- Good ability in multi-task.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as an Engineering Manager with expertise in reliability, product development processes and a proven track record delivering high volume consumer electronic devices to market.
- Experience with failure analysis techniques to isolate failure for any issues. Have reliability knowledge, statistical knowledge and be able to use reliability and statistical method to do data analysis, provide risk assessment and life forecast.
- Experience dealing with high volume manufacturing sites in Asia and, ideally, worked with several different OEM/ODM partners. Experience with crossfunctionally managing a diverse group of engineering, operations and product management professional proficient at creating and tracking complex development schedules, managing issues and tracking bugs.
- Background in consumer electronics (wireless devices, audio devices preferred).
- Solid understanding of both software and hardware development life cycles. Leadership skills.
- Hands on experience at manufacturing sites.
- Strong communication and leadership skills required. Due to the international nature of the project, fluent English communication are a must, and fluent Chinese communication is preferred.