Thread: Amazon/Liquavista Hiring Process Engineers
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Old 02-16-2014, 08:18 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Amazon bought Liquavista from Samsung last March, so they've had the company for nearly a year now. I was just looking for news, and I came across some interesting job ads from Liquavista that were posted in the past month:

Operations Program Manager (Asia based)
Process Quality Engineer
Product Test Engineer
Process Development Engineer
Product Development Manager

and several others.

It looks to me like Liquavista think that the basic R&D is done, and that now they are moving towards mass production for a mass market product.

I have no idea how long a ramp up to volume production takes. I suppose they might just manage it in time for a product launch this Autumn.

But I'd be very surprised if we didn't see a Kindle using a Liquavista electro-wetting display by the end of 2015.
One problem with concluding that this shows a production focus is that Liquavista was never going to produce their own screens. That was always going to be farmed out to an LCD manufacturer. Also, a lot of the jobs listed on that careers page explicitly mention R&D in either the description or the title.
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