Failure Analysis Engineer - Thermal & Reliability

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SPICE lab in Seattle, a branch of Amazon, is seeking a Failure Analysis engineer to drive reliability improvements in Annapurna Labs assemblies. You will perform electrical fault isolation, physical analysis, spectroscopy, and chemical characterization in a lab‑heavy role, interfacing with cross‑functional teams.

The role emphasizes hands‑on lab work, method development, and delivering authoritative failure analysis reports to guide design and manufacturing decisions at scale.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or above in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent
• Adept at electrical characterization techniques for electrical fault isolation (including curve trace, DMM) and materials characterization (SEM/EDS, FTIR, XRF, CT x-ray)
• Experience with enterprise compute thermal solutions. Examples include: 3D vapor chambers, immersion/liquid cooling systems, evaporative cooling infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Conduct failure analysis utilizing electrical fault isolation techniques, physical analysis, spectroscopy, and chemical characterization.
• Consultation on corrective actions, method development, design/manufacturing best practices cross‑functionally to drive measurable improvements to hardware reliability.
• Interface with Senior and Principal engineering staff to identify and execute lab method development spanning enterprise compute assemblies, including power distribution, compute, networking, and thermal management components.

Skills

Electrical characterization

Materials characterization

Thermal analysis

Lab work & hands-on

Education

Master's degree or above in Mechanical/Electrical/Materials/Physics

Tools

SEM/EDS

FTIR

XRF

CT X-ray

DMM

Job description

SPICE lab in Seattle, a branch of Amazon, is seeking a Failure Analysis engineer to drive reliability improvements in Annapurna Labs assemblies. You will perform electrical fault isolation, physical analysis, spectroscopy, and chemical characterization in a lab‑heavy role, interfacing with cross‑functional teams.

The role emphasizes hands‑on lab work, method development, and delivering authoritative failure analysis reports to guide design and manufacturing decisions at scale.