ECAD Application Engineer, Design Technologies

- 3+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience with prototyping and implementation
- Knowledge of SolidWorks simulation or Ansys Finite Element analysis tools
- Experience in the design of complex mechanical products and equipment at volume

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $105,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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The Role:
Are you passionate about driving the future state of design tools and systems? Are you looking to join a fast-paced environment where you can drive innovation, apply your subject matter expertise with new technologies to solve large scale process challenges? If so, this is your opportunity.
Come work with the Design Technologies team in Amazon Devices Hardware Engineering!

Amazon Design Technologies is a multi-disciplinary team that provides design software, develops enterprise software applications, product data management (PDM), Computer Aided Design (CAD), Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) solutions, systems platforms and design processes to our Product Development, New Technology, Operations and Manufacturing teams.


We are looking for candidates with expertise in electrical CAD (ECAD) to help develop expert knowledge on ECAD tools and their applications. As part of Design Technologies group, you stay current with industry trends and development in general and ECAD tools in particular to become a subject matter expert to Electrical Engineering (EE) community. You will demonstrate a strong working knowledge of electrical CAD tools and knowledge of how these tools interact with PDM/PLM systems. You will work within experienced design teams to streamline legacy process and gain alignment with users and advocate for additional capabilities.

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.