Description

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon is one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute millions of products each year to our loyal customers.

Amazon Robotics – Packaging Automation team, based in Seattle WA creates and develops innovative automated machinery solutions to optimize packaging. Our global network of fulfillment centers move many millions of units of inventory of which all must be packaged for delivery to customers. Our customers expect packaging that is environmentally friendly and right sized for the product they are receiving. Our solutions have a large impact on our customer experience.

Pack Automation is developing the next generation of Amazon Fulfillment packaging solutions in. If you are inspired by invention, advanced system integration, solving complex problems and working with highly talented teams then Amazon Pack Automation might be a great fit.

Amazon Robotics – Packaging Automation is seeking a Sr. Hardware Development Engineer. In this role you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative equipment. You will have a hands-on role designing, engineering and exploring prototype and test solutions for new innovations that will deliver an exceptional user experiences. You will continually find new and better ways to solve complex problems within constrained environments. You will demonstrate cross-functional expertise to accomplish your goals. You will play a role in defining the approaches and solutions being developed by the entire team. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.

This is a developing Amazon team and this is your chance to get in on the ground floor of a game-changing initiative. While you’ll be able to use existing Amazon systems when possible, you’ll be working on hard challenging problems that most likely have no off-the-shelf solutions within Amazon, and most likely haven’t been solved anywhere else in the world to the requirements we need.

You should be comfortable building prototypes, challenging assumptions, performing design and architectural reviews, and thinking of creative ways to tackle problems. You’ll work on a team and build systems from the ground-up!

As a Sr. Hardware Development Engineer, you are a leading contributor to your team and to your product.

1.1. Technical

You are right, a lot. You own a complex project and you work very efficiently and routinely deliver the right things, eventually saving costs for the company in the products we build or processes we follow without compromising quality.
Your technical knowledge is broad and/or deep, typically ranging from concept through to the fabrication of a system including critical systems for a consumer electronic product. Your focus is not restricted to your primary discipline but spans multiple domains. You have deep hands-on expertise with many disparate technologies.
You are able to own a complex project and you lead a cross-functional team with a system-wide, architectural view of the solutions that you build, and you consistently think in terms of architecture. You are able to architecture systems that meet product requirements and you communicate your ideas effectively to others in your division.
You are able to analyze issues, even if they are not in your primary domain. You can identify and work closely with the appropriate domain experts to resolve them.
Other engineers in your department regard you as an expert in one or more technical areas.
You show good judgement making technical trade-offs between your group’s short term and long term business needs, and the needs of the company as a whole.
You drive technology development, working with vendors and directing their roadmap decisions.

1.2. Leadership

In difficult situations, such as the presence of discordant views or incomplete data, you are able to constructively work to find a proper course of action and build consensus on a path forward.
You lead vendor meetings for critical component selection. You are able to extract critical information from marketing documents and dive-deep to collect relevant data. You make data-driven decisions to converge onto one of these offerings.
You have good knowledge of the work done by other teams and proactively help others.
You influence your team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to the team’s priorities and approach. You make a significant contribution to team planning.
Your work and your approach to work are exemplary – you drive best practices and set standards for your team.
You actively mentor others, improving their skills, their knowledge of our systems, and their ability to get things done.
Your engineering and best practices knowledge is sought out by others.
You participate in the hiring process for other Hardware Dev Engg roles.

1.3. Results

You build multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped in the hyper-competitive consumer electronics marketplace, or have in some way benefited your org.
You influence and improve design decisions and hardware engineering best practices across the team(s) you work with.
You proactively contribute to knowledge-sharing across the developer community.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Robotics, Mechatronics or similarly related engineering discipline
8+ years’ experience in machine design, packaging equipment design, robotics, industrial production, or other mechatronics industry as a mechanical engineer
Current and active applied engineering design experience
Ability to develop engineering ideas and concepts into production ready equipment
Support development of technical specifications with engineered solutions
Hands-on experience with equipment design, machine design, system development and product integration
Proficient in CAD design and development. SolidWorks or equivalent
Effective in multi-disciplined environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Willing and able to travel

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in Mechanical, Robotics, Mechatronics Engineering or equivalent.
Experience in mechanical design and development practices including common engineering tools used for such efforts with detailed knowledge and expertise in at least one of the areas.
Experience in electro-mechanical systems and systems integration
Automated build and test and/or test driven development.
Project Engineering experience
Experience working with fast-paced cross-functional teams.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation