HardwareServiceEngineer

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers 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 ground breaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create? The Role: As a Engineering Program Manager within the Hardware Service Engineering team you are responsible for defining the customer facing and internal strategy for the warranty and returns services of a new complex product. In addition to creating the overall returns service strategy, the role owns development of technical processes for dis-assembly, assembly, spare parts reclamation, and development of tooling solutions to facilitate service operations. This includes defining, developing, deploying and sustaining hardware screening operations and repair/refurbishment processes globally to support Amazon Digital Device products. The role will be expected to use program management experience to share the overall strategy, gain cross-functional support, and hold stakeholders accountable to the overall Reverse Logistics NPI strategy. In this role, you will: • Own the overall repair service cost-model and changes to the cost-model due to risk and plan of record changes. • Define customer return screening and repair strategy for warranty and remorse returns • Develop repair processes and tooling (as needed) to support repair activities for a variety of products • Assure successful implementation into global and regional support strategies • Review and evaluate product designs for compliance with Design for Serviceability guidelines and Design for Repair standards • Provide tangible feedback based on results to improve product design features • Enhance field support productivity and effectiveness through improved hardware serviceability, driving opportunities into product design • Review HW designs dur