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Sr. System Safety Engineer, Energy and Sustainability Devices
Sr. System Safety Engineer, Energy and Sustainability Devices-March 2024
San Jose
Mar 30, 2026
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  Description

  Amazon has co-founded and signed The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach net zero carbon by 2040. In alignment with this bold corporate goal, the Amazon Devices & Services organization is looking for a Sr. System Safety Engineer to invent and deliver solutions for a zero carbon future.

  This hands-on position requires broad engineering competence and demonstrated experience successfully leading complex safety critical system development in a dynamic environment. You will work alongside product management, research, design, engineering (software/hardware), and compliance to define and build impactful devices on our Energy & Sustainability Initiatives roadmap.

  If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to highly impactful challenging problems, we look forward to talking to you.

  Key job responsibilities

  As a Sr. System Safety Engineer you will...

  Collaborate with architects and designers to find optimal implementations of functional safety in hardware and software

  Make cross-functional trade-offs between subsets of the following dimensions: performance, schedule, cost, risk, opportunity, complexity, and scale

  Work on the optimization, automation, and training of engineering teams and development of standard methodologies to ensure fast execution

  Own development and maintenance of clear, concise, and verifiable product safety requirements and reduce ambiguity and complexity for others

  Decompose and allocate safety requirements into straightforward tasks, components, or features.

  Ensure systems are developed within a process that results in end-to-end traceability and achievement of both system safety targets and product requirements

  Lead technical risk assessments and failure mode identification

  Collaborate closely with compliance engineers to meet all required safety certifications

  Guide the team that is implementing safety-related software and hardware solutions

  Drive the creation and use of standard operating procedures across the product development team

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

  San Jose, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

  Basic Qualifications

  5+ years experience in systems or safety engineering

  Strong statistical and reliability fundamentals

  Experience working with safety and requirements management software tools

  Experience developing Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA), Fault Trees, Reliability Predictions, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), System Safety Assessment (SSA), and Functional Decomposition

  Excellent written and verbal communications; ability to explain complex concepts to colleagues across disciplines.

  Proficient working with cross functional teams to drive analysis of complex systems.

  Preferred Qualifications

  Proficiency working under UL1998/991, IEC60730, or similar functional safety certification processes

  Experience defining and maintaining requirements for functional safety systems

  Deep knowledge performing functional safety analyses in complex hardware and software systems

  Experience developing and implementing safety related processes and documentation

  Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

  Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $121,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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