Manufacturing Engineer-Test

Manufacturing Engineer, Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations—from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Within AWS, Annapurna Labs team is building the next generation cloud server infrastructure. Our success depends on delivering world-class server infrastructure; we’re handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies. Our servers include accelerators such as AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium which are machine learning products designed to deliver high performance at low cost.
The Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability Team is part of AWS Annapurna Labs focused on Machine Learning products that designs cutting AI platforms for the world’s largest Cloud Services provider. We are seeking a talented and motivated Manufacturing Engineer with a proven track record of implementing best in class test techniques and processes within a complex supply chain in Asia. As a member of the Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team, you will be the interface between the system engineering team and the ODM and CM partners in Asia.
As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design infrastructure technologies. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test in manufacturing. A successful candidate will be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. Be responsible for the test validation of future technologies.
Drive manufacturing process improvements to address reliability issues and concerns.
Qualify manufacturing lines and mechanisms for mass production
Lead identifying and validating product/component risks and work with design teams to mitigate them and define the test methodology and test coverage to assure product quality
Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.
Work with multiple vendors and ODMs to standardize component manufacturing and reliability expectations.
Work with system engineering teams to identify and escalate manufacturing challenges by enforcing DFM, DFA and DFS principles
# Evaluate, investigate and introduce new manufacturing technology and methodology to enhance product quality and production efficiency at ODM and CM
# Develop or adapt manufacturing process at the ODM and CM, including defining fixture requirements, critical assembly requirements, test methodology, signal integrity, power and heat management requirement
# Drive all factory-related operational issues related to assembly processes during pre-production builds; ensure effective closure to enable operational success of the new product introduction cycle, and put products into mass production
# Manage product lifecycle changes, lead product quality and reliability improvement projects, and drive technical root cause for supplier defects
# Implement and optimize manufacturing 1st pass yields and efficiency from prototype through product ramp
# Work with engineering teams in US to clearly represent process and reviews to enable smooth New Product Introduction and changes
# Regular travel to Hsinchu

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BS in mechanical engineering or a related technical field
~4+ years of experience in a related engineering field
~ Experience in printed circuit boards (PCB) assembly, including solder paste, chip mounting, reflow soldering, advanced heat sink mounting.
~ Experience in PCB inspection and metrology including optical, Lasers, X-ray, 3D
~ Experience in automatic assembly process
~ Experience with failure analysis techniques to evaluate production, supplier and field failures to drive root cause analysis and resolution.
~ Experience in integration of production testing infrastructure and deployment of production test suites
~ Good understanding of manufacturing strategy and DFMA best practices
Experienced with CAD software
Experience with Statistical Analysis Software
Excellent oral and written communication skills; Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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