Senior Thermal Engineer - Hardware Product Integrity

Sr. Thermal Scientist / Engineer, Hardware - Product Integrity

You will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers. The team is a multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists engaged in a fast paced mission to deliver new products. The team faces a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, and performance requirements. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and meticulousness.

Your deliverables will include development of thermal solutions, concept design, feature development, product architecture and system validation through to manufacturing release. You will support creative developments through application of analysis and testing of complex electronic assemblies using advanced simulation and experimentation tools and techniques.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Lead end-to-end thermal design for SoC and consumer electronics, spanning package, board, system architecture, and product integration
- Perform advanced CFD simulations using tools such as Star-CCM+ or FloEFD to assess feasibility, risks, and mitigation strategies
- Plan and execute thermal validation for devices and SoC packages, ensuring compliance with safety, reliability, and qualification requirements
- Partner with cross-functional and cross-site teams to influence product decisions, define thermal limits, and establish temperature thresholds
- Develop data processing, statistical analysis, and test automation frameworks to improve insight quality, scalability, and engineering efficiency
- Communicate thermal risks, trade-offs, and mitigation strategies clearly to engineering leadership to support schedule, performance, and product decisions


About the team
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers 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 innovative devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

Basic Qualifications

- Master's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in thermal design and validation for consumer electronics and/or SoC-based products

Preferred Qualifications

- PhD in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- Hands-on experience on writing code for data processing, statistical analysis and data visualization
- Experience with CAD tools such as Creo or SolidWorks for thermal design and integration

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Experience Level

Senior Level