Senior CMF Designer, Leo Customer Terminal Industrial Design

About the role

The Amazon LEO Industrial Design team is seeking a highly technical, strategic Senior Color, Material, and Finish (CMF) Designer to join our world-class Industrial Design team in the Seattle, WA area.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and scale the holistic CMF strategy for Leo hardware
• Proactively explore and evaluate advanced materials, innovative coatings, and sustainable manufacturing processes
• Establish robust tracking systems and documentation workflows to manage, audit, and maintain CMF specifications
• Serve as authority on visual quality at the factory level
• Establish, document, and implement Cosmetic Quality Standard (CQS) specifications to be executed by Asia-based manufacturing partners
• Author and maintain comprehensive CMF documentation, boundary samples, Limit Samples, and Step and Gap specifications to govern assembly precision and surface consistency
• Lead on-site color matching sessions and oversee the visual quality of physical parts under standardized lighting environments

About The Team

The Leo Hardware Design team is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary organization of designers, engineers, product managers, and program managers working together to bring the product vision to life. We enjoy what we do, have big ideas, and tackle complex problems by taking risks that drive global solutions. In every work stream, we immerse ourselves in insights, and invent on behalf of our customers. We brainstorm scenarios they will benefit from and solutions to pain points—crafting innovative products that aim to connect the physical and digital customer journey.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• Bachelor's degree in graphic design, industrial design, digital communications design, visual arts, mass communications, art, or equivalent
• 7+ years of design experience
• 7+ years of new hardware products development experience
• 5+ years of experience with one or more ID surfacing and parametric CAD tools, preferably a combination of Rhino, SolidWorks, Creo, Keyshot

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• Experience with the project management of technical projects
• An exceptional portfolio that demonstrates delivering successful products from concept to production
• Experience working with production vendors for high volume devices
• Familiar with motion graphics and 3D animation expertise