Amazon
Failure Analysis Manager, Product Integrity, Failure Analysis
$151K–$204K
Seattle, WA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jun 9, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
SEATTLE, WA - Experience
- 7+ years of new hardware products development experience.
- Education
- Master's degree or equivalent in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent.
About the job
Leads Amazon’s Failure Analysis and Reliability Testing teams, investigating hardware failures and driving corrective actions and reliability improvements across the product portfolio.
What you'll do
- Set technical strategy, prioritize analytical capabilities, and scale lab capacity.
- Lead investigations and reliability testing, translating findings into design, process, and manufacturing improvements.
- Develop the team and manage stakeholder relationships, escalations, project progress, and resource planning.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of new hardware products development experience.
- Master's degree or equivalent in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent.
- Proven leadership scaling technical teams and root cause FA capabilities in high-reliability industries.
- Hands-on depth across component, board, and system failure domains, with experience influencing hardware design decisions at portfolio level.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with physical failure analysis techniques, including CT X-ray, SEM, EDS, FTIR, XRF, and cross-sectioning.
- Knowledge of reliability engineering disciplines such as accelerated life testing, failure rate modeling, DFMEA, and DfR.
Pay
151,000.00 - 204,300.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
CT X-ray, optical/UV/thermal imaging, TDR, SEM, EDS, FTIR, XRF, DFMEA
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