Sr. Robotics Systems Engineer, Vulcan Stow Hardware and Systems

$136,100 - $235,200/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Senior

Seattle, WA

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The Sr. Robotics Systems Engineer will be part of the Amazon Robotics team, focusing on the design, development, and deployment of complex robotic systems. This role involves collaborating with various engineering disciplines to create safe, reliable, and scalable robotic solutions that enhance operational efficiency. The engineer will be responsible for defining design parameters, conducting risk assessments, and driving system test campaigns to ensure successful integration and performance of robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Define, expand, and explore the design space for complex, multidisciplinary robotics and automation problems.
• Identify and analyze the cross-functional tradeoffs between design alternatives, including impact on performance, schedule, cost, risk, complexity, and scale.
• 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.
• Identify design choices to ensure our products are safe, reliable, and usable, and can be deployed and supported at Amazon scale.
• Perform technical risk assessments, devise mitigation plans, and create system test strategies.
• Define and continually refine metrics for measuring the performance and success / failure rates of Robotic operations.
• 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.
• Develop and communicate system integration and evaluation strategies and plans for program learning, technical risk reduction, verification, and validation.
• Drive and prioritize execution of system test campaigns that span lab and field testing environments along with subsystem development and test teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience with eliciting and clarifying business and end user needs, and connecting those needs to system concepts, requirements, and designs.
• Experience leading technical collaborations and creating alignment across diverse groups (e.g. hardware engineering, software engineering, program management).
• Experience identifying and analyzing dependencies, tradeoffs, and sensitivities across multi-disciplinary systems.
• BS or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics, Physics, or another STEM discipline.

Nice-to-haves

• 9+ years of experience in integrated system design, Experience with industrial robotics and automated manipulations solutions.
• Experience with machine learning systems
• Experience with supporting hardware/software systems across the product life cycle.
• Experience with developing scalable and safety-critical systems.
• Experience with 1 or more relevant domains: Industrial Automation, Robotic Manipulation, Perception and Controls.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Maternity and Parental Leave Options
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) Plan