Amazon
Failure Analysis Engineer, SPICE Lab (Seattle)
$117K–$160K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Education
- Master's degree or above in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics, or equivalent.
About the job
Investigates failures in enterprise compute and networking hardware assemblies, develops lab analysis methods, and advises teams on corrective actions to improve reliability.
What you'll do
- Conduct failure analysis using electrical fault isolation, physical analysis, spectroscopy, and chemical characterization.
- Advise cross-functional teams on corrective actions, lab methods, and design and manufacturing practices.
- Coordinate investigations and reliability-qualification device triage, and report findings to stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Master's degree or above in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics, or equivalent.
- Proficiency in electrical fault-isolation characterization, including curve trace and DMM, and materials characterization, including SEM/EDS, FTIR, XRF, and CT x-ray.
- Experience with enterprise compute thermal solutions, such as vapor chambers or liquid-cooling systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with thermal characterization or fault-isolation techniques such as lock-in thermography or OBIRCH.
- Experience developing and executing tests for thermal interface materials or heatsink devices.
Pay
117,300.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
curve trace, DMM, SEM/EDS, FTIR, XRF, CT x-ray, lock-in thermography, OBIRCH
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