Amazon is building the largest EV fleet and EV charging network in the world as part of our Climate Pledge. We're looking for an Interdisciplinary Systems Engineer with expertise in connectivity, communications interfaces, and HW/SW systems to define systems-level architectures and new processes that will track and improve charging system performance. The ideal candidate for this role will have: 1) worked on teams with multiple interdependencies (including third party vendors), 2) scaled prior products, and 3) will be as enthusiastic about root causing systemic field issues to resolve operational pain points as they are developing new architectures.
*Travel required approximately every 3 weeks or 15% of the time.
Key job responsibilities
The role of an Interdisciplinary Systems Engineer is to develop technical strategy including: identify requirements, decompose into systems, subsystems and interfaces, identify potential solutions, perform trade studies, identify constraints and cross-functional tradeoffs, perform technical risk assessments, present conclusions to peers and senior management, develop plans and papers outlining technical approach, design/architecture, and test specifications, lead multi-disciplinary technology teams, facilitate and communicate architecture and system design with partner teams, address safety, reliability, usability and deployment at Amazon scale.
You will:
• Develop a technical strategy for a controller and lead development of any new products needed to support that strategy
• Define connectivity standards for our charging infrastructure and a technical strategy to meet those standards
• Develop a detailed understanding of the current charging system architecture and identify methods to monitor/improve performance
A day in the life
You'll start the morning in the lab deep diving hardware specifications and testing communications protocols on existing chargers with a fellow engineer. After lunch, you’ll hop on a status call with a vendor to discuss progress on a pilot with a communications component and analyze early data points based on test cases you provided. In the afternoon, you’ll work on a document outlining a technical strategy and lead calls with stakeholders involved in the initiative.
About the team
The GFP E&I team is responsible for accelerating Amazon's Last Mile electrification and facilitating the successful transition of our delivery fleet to achieve net zero-emissions in support of The Climate Pledge. The Charging and Infrastructure Engineering team under AMZL Energy defines EV charging and infrastructure product needs, develops or sources solutions to meet those needs, and manages the performance of our EV charging infrastructure post-installation. We are relentless evangelists for our products and technology solutions, and the positive impact they will have on our internal and external customers.• BS in an engineering discipline and 8+ years working in an engineering role
• Understanding of systems engineering tools and best practices, and experience tailoring the processes to help new product development teams go fast
• Experience identifying and analyzing dependencies, tradeoffs, and sensitivities across multi-disciplinary systems
• Experience leading technical collaborations and creating alignment across diverse groups (e.g., technical disciplines, subsystem teams, development partners)
• Experience with eliciting and clarifying business and end user needs, and connecting those needs to system concepts, requirements, and designs
• Experience taking systems through the entire product lifecycle- Experience developing and managing cellular products
- Experience in power systems
- Controls engineering experience
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