Description

*The duration for this internship opportunity is from June to August 2024

**Applicants to this internship opportunity will need the work authorization for Philippines

Each day all across the world, we develop the ideas, services, and products that make life easier for tens of millions of customers, and make good things happen faster. From providing Earth’s biggest selection of products to developing groundbreaking software and devices that change entire industries, Amazon is a place of invention and progressive thinking.

The Role: As a Hardware Materials Engineer Intern at Amazon Ring, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff from NPI to Operations to define material qualification requirements and criteria. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, and test. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment.

As part of a project team, you will work alongside senior hardware materials and mechanical engineers; supporting the design, debug, validate, and optimization of the products. You will be involved in projects from concept through production, gaining exposure to the complete design lifecycle. You will also support engineering builds gaining experience with high-volume manufacturing.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Provide technical expertise in materials engineering / composition and science, while working with materials suppliers, CMs and external Labs for new product needs, new tooling, new processes.

• Work with suppliers and CMs to develop and execute material qualification plans to ensure launch of new high quality and reliable products for safe launches.

• Works with the cross-functional program team in the selection and identification of new materials / components to be used in a new product and new process development.

• Lead, analyze and complete parts approval process results, and communicate to program teams any areas of concerns on specific materials or components being qualified.

• Participate in product risk assessment and provide inputs based on material characteristics, durability and ruggedness per use cases.

• Initiates materials analysis and improvement needed to address internal and external customer concerns and complaints on current products due to material fatigue, ageing, or any safety issue related to materials or components.

• Qualifies materials and components to meet product applications, Sustainability, Safety and Environmental Compliance requirements.

• Provides technical support during material supplier manufacturing plant audits to ensure process controls are emplaced to achieve repeatability of parts quality and meet materials specification per defined processes.

• Develop and implement qualified materials and components databases per use cases, and various application requirements.

About the team

At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon is one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute millions of products each year to our loyal customers. As an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics like the Kindle family of products and hardware. We have worked to produce innovative devices like our best-selling e-readers, tablets, Fire TV, drones, robots, and other hardware. We are working on the future. What will you help us create?

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Pasay City, PHL

Basic Qualifications

• Currently in your penultimate year and enrolled in a Bachelor’s Degree in Materials Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical Engineering or related field

• Expected graduation after August 2024

• Must be legally able to work in Philippines

• Able to commit to a full-time internship from June to August 2024

• Has in-depth knowledge in conducting materials analysis and technically competent in materials science.

• Analog and digital skills with knowledge on problem solving on any quality, reliability or materials

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong Mathematical, Statistical, and/or Physical fundamentals Experience in material science and engineering

• Analytical, and objective to drive results, leading diverse group despite conflicting priorities.

• Experience or knowledge in consumer electronics, with analog, digital, and high-speed circuit design

• Experience in communicating with customers, technical, regulatory, business teams, and management to collect requirements, describe per product features, and technical designs