Robotics Systems Engineer, Vulcan Stow Hardware and Systems

2 days ago

Seattle WA United States Amazon Full time
Robotics Systems Engineer, Vulcan Stow Hardware and Systems

The Amazon Robotics team is seeking broad, curious engineers to join our robotic manipulation team. We holistically design, build, and deliver end-to-end robotic systems. Our team is also responsible for core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone of our robotic applications, enabling roboticists, machine learning scientists, software engineers, and hardware engineers to deploy systems in the field.


Key job responsibilities:

  1. Define, expand, and explore the design space for complex, multidisciplinary robotics and automation problems.
  2. Identify and analyze the cross-functional tradeoffs between design alternatives, including impact on performance, schedule, cost, risk, complexity, and scale.
  3. Break down and frame problems using concept of operations, use cases, structural/functional decompositions, and other system representations to clarify needs and align technical teams.
  4. Identify design choices to ensure our products are safe, reliable, and usable, and can be deployed and supported at Amazon scale.
  5. Perform technical risk assessments, devise mitigation plans, and create system test strategies.
  6. Define and continually refine metrics for measuring the performance and success/failure rates of robotic operations.
  7. Build quantitative models and analyses (Excel, MATLAB, Python, internal tools) to conduct trade studies, refine requirements, and understand key system drivers across the integrated systems of systems.
  8. Develop and communicate system integration and evaluation strategies and plans for program learning, technical risk reduction, verification, and validation.
  9. Drive and prioritize execution of system test campaigns that span lab and field testing environments along with subsystem development and test teams (test readiness reviews, test execution, post-test analysis and reporting).

A day in the life:

Amazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

  1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
  2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
  3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
  4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply


Minimum Requirements:

  1. 5+ years of experience with eliciting and clarifying business and end user needs, and linking those needs to system concepts, requirements, and designs.
  2. Experience leading technical collaborations and creating alignment across diverse groups (e.g. hardware engineering, software engineering, program management).
  3. Experience identifying and analyzing dependencies, tradeoffs, and sensitivities across multi-disciplinary systems.
  4. BS or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics, Physics, or another STEM discipline.
  5. 5+ years of experience in integrated system design, experience with industrial robotics and automated manipulations solutions.
  6. Experience with machine learning systems.
  7. Experience with supporting hardware/software systems across the product life cycle.
  8. Experience with developing scalable and safety-critical systems.
  9. Experience with 1 or more relevant domains: Industrial Automation, Robotic Manipulation, Perception and Controls.

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 this link .


Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/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 this link . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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