Principal Industrial Designer, Amazon Delivery Experience

Amazon Delivery relies on a wide array of hardware, covering automotive, warehousing, automation and robotics. Join our Design Research team in Amazon Delivery to push the boundaries of hardware design in challenging settings, using state-of-the-art software and robotics developments to build new forms of machinery and human interfaces. As a service that interfaces with millions of people, hardware supporting Amazon Delivery is the face of the company.

Our team shares a passion for innovation using advanced technologies, a love for solving complex challenges, and a desire to impact customers in a meaningful way. We're looking for individuals who like dealing with ambiguity, solving hard, large scale problems, and are excited about inter-disciplinary collaboration.

This Principal Industrial Design role seeks a candidate to work with our engineering, operations, manufacturing, and UX design teams on the framing and definition of current and future product opportunities. Successful candidates will demonstrate a desire to experiment and work well with others.

Key job responsibilities
- Use 2D and 3D tools to create designs that combine product appeal, functionality, and manufacturability
- Develop design strategies to bring cohesion and consistency to the product portfolio
- Oversee design and fabrication of compelling functional and/or appearance prototypes for review by team leaders and executive staff
- Work with suppliers and engineers to develop, refine, and document high-quality, cost-effective manufacturing methods


About the team
The Amazon Delivery Experience design studio is an interdisciplinary team covering visual, UX, industrial and communication design. Our studio encompasses all aspects of Amazon delivery, from items being sent for shipping, the actual delivery process, all the way to customers indicating their delivery preferences.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of relevant work in industry or academia experience
- Experience in new hardware product development
- Experience communicating with customers, technical, regulatory, business teams, and management to collect requirements, describe product features, and technical designs
- Mastery over 2D and 3D visualization tools

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of material and manufacturing methods
- Experience in visual design expertise with ability to produce fresh, simple, elegant and exceedingly usable layouts and interactions and iconography
- Experience designing electro-mechanical systems with significant user interaction elements a strong plus.

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