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Senior Applied Scientist, Structural Design Integrity

Amazon, North Reading, MA, United States


Senior Applied Scientist, Structural Design Integrity
Job ID: 10397442 | Amazon Innovation Center (Shenzhen) Company Limited

As a Sr. Applied Scientist, you will be responsible for bringing new product designs through to manufacturing. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary groups including Product Design, Industrial Design, Hardware Engineering, and Operations, to drive key aspects of engineering of consumer electronics products.

In this role, you will use expertise in physical sciences, theoretical, numerical or empirical techniques to create scalable models representing response of physical systems or devices, including:

Applying domain scientific expertise towards developing innovative analysis and tests to study viability of new materials, designs or processes

Working closely with engineering teams to drive validation, optimization and implementation of hardware design or software algorithmic solutions to improve product and customer risks

Establishing scalable, efficient, automated processes to handle large scale design and data analysis

Conducting research into use conditions, materials and analysis techniques

Tracking general business activity including device health in field and providing clear, compelling reports to management on a regular basis

Developing, implementing guidelines to continually optimize design processes

Using simulation tools like LS-DYNA and Abaqus for analysis and optimization of product design

Using programming languages like Python and Matlab for analytical/statistical analyses and automation

Demonstrating strong understanding across multiple physical science domains, e.g. structural, thermal, fluid dynamics, and materials

Developing, analyzing and testing structural solutions from concept design, feature development, product architecture, through system validation

Supporting product development and optimization through application of analysis and testing of complex electronic assemblies using advanced simulation and experimentation tools and techniques

Basic Qualifications

PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of industry or academic research experience

Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

Preferred Qualifications

PhD with 3+ years of experience in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent

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