ECAD Application Engineer, Design Technologies

Amazon Design Technologies is a multi-disciplinary group within Amazon Devices that builds and provides engineering tools and workflows, software systems and integrations, automations, and design services to hardware engineering teams across Amazon. We manage enterprise engineering systems, CAD tools, PDM/PLM systems, High Performance Compute (HPC) environments, and license management/procurement. We are looking for an ECAD Application Engineer with hands-on expertise in Cadence suite of applications, specifically Cadence OrCAD, Allegro, System Capture and Pulse to play a key role in configuring, customizing and extending the ECAD applications used at Amazon. Our team is uniquely positioned at the intersection of hardware design and artificial intelligence, pioneering AI-based design review and design generation capabilities that will transform how engineers create next-generation products.

- Evaluate new features and functions that are made available within existing or potential ECAD tools to judge their potential benefits.

- Be the primary point of technical contact with ECAD tool vendor to support and influence their roadmaps to best meet the needs of the Amazon EE community.

- Work with ECAD tool vendors to resolve issues with vendor supplied code, and advocate for enhancements and bug fixes.

- Evangelize and drive adoption of ECAD tools though process development and training

- Define best practices though documentation and requirements definition for development of ECAD automation.

- Deliver well written business requirements documents, system configuration documents, detailed functional design documents, user training documents and implementation documents.

- Manage and maintain EDA scripts/automations, ECAD application extensions

- Support engineering tools and process automations by collaborating with teams responsible for working with Product Data Management (PDM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and CAD systems.