Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is seeking a synergetic, talented, and motivated Sr. Electrical Engineer (Power) to work on the design of industrial automation control panels and workcell interconnect diagrams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing the electrical connections inside industrial electrical AC/DC and DC/DC cabinets with voltages in the 100-600VAC and 5-60VDC ranges. This candidate must have the ability to work well both independently and in team settings. The candidate is expected to be able to own the entire electrical solution for our products, including specification to design, prototype, and manufacturing.
Key job responsibilities
- Work with an interdisciplinary team to execute product designs from concept to production including design, prototyping, validation, testing and certification.
- Design Industrial Electrical Control Panel schematics following industry best practices.
- Review specifications and schematics for compliance with relevant safety standards such as NFPA79 and UL508a.
- Specify, Integrate and Deploy AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies as part of Electrical Control Panels in industrial automation equipment.
- Ensure the specifications of the power system meet the customer needs as well as regulatory requirements.
- Write and develop functional specifications, design verification plans and test procedures.
- Guide product releases to manufacturing and customer deployments from prototype through production volume
- Establish development processes to meet industry standards for functionally safe control systems (IEC 61508).
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
About the team
You will own end-to-end power design of our robotic workcells. You will actively engage with external AC/DC, DC/DC, battery, and VFD suppliers to comprehend their products and integrate them into products. In learning about the products and our customers you will work with suppliers to design engineering test systems for these products. You will leverage your industry experience and deep dive customer and regulatory demands to integrate these new products into our custom automation systems. There will be active participation within an interdisciplinary team working to iterate on the design optimizing across cost, schedule and time to market.
Internal job description
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Bachelors in Electrical Engineering or similar
- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures.
- * 5+ years of experience designing the electrical connections inside industrial electrical AC/DC and DC/DC cabinets with voltages in the 100-600VAC and 5-60VDC ranges
- Experience with UL508A/NFPA79/IEC60204-1 and the impact to Electrical Panel Design
- Experience specifying COTs components for use within 100-600VAC systems:
- Breakers, relays and fuses
- Power line filters and choke design and selection
- Power factor correction
- Variable Frequency Dive and Motor Driven Roller specification and integration
- Energy storage and regeneration (UPS, batteries, super capacitors, etc.) design and selection
- Energy dissipation (bleeder resistors) design and selection
- Experience with electrical enclosure design including layout best practices.
- Used Eplan. AutoCAD Electrical, or equivalent CAD tool for electrical hardware designs of machinery
- Extensive knowledge of European and American design standards
- Demonstrated strong ability to move seamlessly between levels of abstraction – from system to the “nuts and bolts” implementation.
- Extensive system design interfacing to a wide array of electro-mechanical subsystems and debugging experience
Job Tags
Full time, Temporary work, Seasonal work,