Sr. System Integrity Modeling/Verification Engineer

• BS in Electrical Engineering, or similar technical domains
• 7+ years of experience in HW/IC design, modeling and simulation.
• 4+ years of experience in modeling and verification of analog and mixed-signal circuits or systems
• Proficiency in SystemVerilog, VerilogA, and Verilog modeling
• Proficiency in analog and mixed-signal verification environment in Cadence and simulation methodologies
• Experience in Matlab programming
• Experience in script programming languages such as Perl or Python
• Experience with reviewing, understanding, and providing guidance on C/C++ embedded code applications to meet hardware design needs.
• Experience with electrical understanding of designs including power sequences, regulators, embedded communication buses, and power states.
• Experience with breaking down problems into electrical fundamentals.
• Experience troubleshooting issues in ICs, system designs, or firmware interactions.
• Experience with processor architecture, digital circuit design and various communications protocols such as I2C, UART, SPI, USB, MIPI, I2S, etc.

Job summary
Do you want to shape the future of consumer electronics devices?

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronic devices, creating the best-selling Kindle, FireTV, Echo, and Ring family of products. What will you help us create?

The Role
As a System Integrity Modeling/Verification Engineer, you lead the charge in modeling and simulation to identify what can go wrong and best ways to accommodate it in electrical design. The team works to apply customer use cases to products ensuring electrical and battery safety, reliability, and customer experience by design.

Our engineers work on multiple products starting in early concept with architecture and continuing through volume prototypes. We work backwards from real customer use cases and ensure the device achieves the desired behavior. You will develop methodologies for battery charging/longevity, electrical surge suppression, drop detection, ESD mitigation, electronic control & feedback, and more.

Engineers work independently to identify systemic or emerging design challenges facing customer use scenarios, develop a deep understanding of the issue, brainstorm mitigation methodologies, deploy improvements to products, and specify test procedures to validate the improvement. One such example is: When a device is dropped in the ocean, how will it know? What will it do? What should it do?
For these products you will start with the customer and identify use cases, safety and reliability stress cases. For each case you will analyze the electrical and firmware behavior through modeling and simulation to achieve a desired result. You will frequently act as a problem solver, taking ambiguous or overly constrained issues and determining a path to a solution via hardware, architecture, or firmware design modifications.
This position is an electrical engineering position. You will create simulation platforms in Cadence/Matlab/Simulink for analog, mixed-signal and system-level simulations. You will create test benches from use cases and analyze the simulation/analysis results to confirm meeting product requirements. You will not only interact with internal firmware, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and software teams on product specifications and use cases, but also you will serve as a liaison to communicate with external component vendors to request, create and validate behavioral models of components.

Can you make the devices work as they should?

• MSEE with 8+ years of experience in consumer electronics design
• Knowledge of low-power circuit design, DC/DC converters, power management methods, audio circuit design, and analog design
• Experience with battery management and charging systems
• Experience partnering with software teams to define and implement firmware, drivers and algorithms
• Experience debugging multi-disciplinary challenges and developing test plans to validate multi-disciplinary interfaces.
• Experience and desire to mentor and lead junior engineers.
• Ability to communicate clearly and guide global multidisciplinary teams.

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