ECAD Application Engineer, Design Technologies

About the role

Amazon Design Technologies is a multi-disciplinary group within Amazon Devices that builds and provides engineering tools and workflows, software systems and integrations, automations, and design services to hardware engineering teams across Amazon. We manage enterprise engineering systems, CAD tools, PDM/PLM systems, High Performance Compute (HPC) environments, and license management/procurement. We are looking for an ECAD Application Engineer with hands-on expertise in Cadence suite of applications, specifically Cadence OrCAD, Allegro, System Capture and Pulse to play a key role in configuring, customizing and extending the ECAD applications used at Amazon. Our team is uniquely positioned at the intersection of hardware design and artificial intelligence, pioneering AI-based design review and design generation capabilities that will transform how engineers create next-generation products. This position will be responsible for defining electrical engineering best practices, standards and guidelines, and managing customizations, configurations and providing support of ECAD applications to hardware engineering teams across Amazon. The position will have the opportunity to integrate AI/ML technologies into traditional CAD workflows, enabling intelligent automation and design assistance. Core activities will include gathering and defining business requirements, supporting design and development of workflow automations, prototyping, and support engineering tools and process automations by collaborating with teams responsible for working with Product Data Management (PDM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and CAD systems. Export Control Requirements: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen Key job responsibilities As an Electrical CAD (ECAD) Application Engineer, you will be responsible for providing a stable, performant and reliable set of best-in-class software tools for hardware engineers. You will anticipate tool and infrastructure needs, work with multiple organizations, support users, and develop and implement processes to enable successful and rapid development of innovative hardware products. In this role you will: - Evaluate new features and functions that are made available within existing or potential ECAD tools to judge their potential benefits. - Be the primary point of technical contact with ECAD tool vendor to support and influence their roadmaps to best meet the needs of the Amazon EE community. - Work with ECAD tool vendors to resolve issues with vendor supplied code, and advocate for enhancements and bug fixes. - Evangelize and drive adoption of ECAD tools though process development and training - Define best practices though documentation and requirements definition for development of ECAD automation. - Deliver well written business requirements documents, system configuration documents, detailed functional design documents, user training documents and implementation documents. - Manage and maintain EDA scripts/automations, ECAD application extensions - Support engineering tools and process automations by collaborating with teams responsible for working with Product Data Management (PDM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and CAD systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• 3+ years of working experience with Cadence suite of applications -OrCAD/Allegro
• 3+ years of working experience with System Capture
• 3+ years of working experience with PDM/PLM system
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI capabilities into traditional engineering workflows.
• Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Additional Information

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineer's 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 devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Fire phone, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create? Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

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