Advanced Materials Engineer, Global Materials Science

About This Role

Join Amazon's Global Materials Science (GMS) team as an Advanced Materials Engineer to innovate sustainable e-commerce packaging materials. This role involves hands-on laboratory research, materials characterization, specification establishment, and supplier collaboration to bring novel materials from concept to production, impacting Amazon's global fulfillment network.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on laboratory research and development of packaging materials including paper substrates, adhesives, coatings, and alternative fiber technologies.
• Design and execute experiments to optimize material formulations and processing parameters.
• Develop next-generation materials solutions that unlock step-change improvements in performance, cost, sustainability, and automation compatibility.
• Perform comprehensive materials characterization using techniques including tensile/burst/tear testing, rheometry, thermal analysis, spectroscopy, microscopy, and surface analysis.
• Establish correlations between fundamental materials properties and operational performance in fulfillment environments.
• Define materials specifications based on critical performance thresholds and translate operational requirements into measurable materials properties.
• Work directly with suppliers (paper mills, adhesive manufacturers, converters) to develop and scale new materials.
• Collaborate with Packaging Engineering on materials-design integration and automation equipment compatibility.
• Support sustainability initiatives including carbon footprint modeling and recyclability assessment.
• Author technical reports, test protocols, specifications documents, and research summaries.

Requirements

• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• Experience with the project management of technical projects
• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• 5 - 10+ years of experience with materials selection, testing, and scaling to manufacturing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in materials science engineering, chemistry, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, pulp/paper engineering or a related technical discipline
• 5 - 10+ years of experience with materials selection, testing, and scaling to manufacturing

Nice to Have

• 5+ years of designing experiments and statistical analysis of results experience
• Experience in written and oral communication, including the ability to communicate with all levels in the organization
• Experience in characterization techniques and equipment, such as SEM-EDS, FTIR, DSC, TGA, DMA, rheometry, spectrophotometry, optical microscopy, and mechanical property testing related to packaging or other forest products with standard (ASTM, TAPPI, ISO, ISTA, etc.) and non standard methodologies.

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits