The Robot Storage Tech team is responsible for ensuring the successful launch of Amazon Robotic storage systems worldwide by managing the design-to-implementation process of system solutions. We are looking for a Principal Interdisciplinary Systems Engineer to join a dynamic team that provides leadership for concept development, architecture, and design of robotics systems and industrial equipment.
Key job 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 con-ops, 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
- 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
- Perform technical risk assessments (such as TRL, Gap Analysis, FMEDA, HARA, etc.), devise mitigation plans, and create system test strategies
- Develop and communicate system integration and evaluation strategies and plans in support of program learning, technical risk reduction, verification, and validation
- Drive and prioritize execution of system test campaigns that span lab and field testing environments in partnership with subsystem development and test teams (test readiness reviews, test execution, post-test analysis and reporting)
- Mentor junior engineers in engineering best practices, and participate in hiring of new team members
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support 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!
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with eliciting and clarifying business and end user needs, and linking those needs to system concepts, requirements, and designs
- Significant depth and breadth of technical expertise to lead technical collaboration across diverse groups (e.g. hardware engineering, software engineering, program management)
- Experience coordinating and/or leading design teams to establish design goals, balancing business and technical trade-offs
- Experience identifying and analyzing dependencies, tradeoffs, and sensitivities across multi-disciplinary systems
- BS or equivalent in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Operations Research, or another STEM discipline
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Depth in one or more relevant domains: Industrial Automation, Robotic Vehicles/Manipulation, Autonomy, Perception and Controls
- Experience with industrial robotics and automated material handling solutions
- Experience with developing safety-critical systems and supporting related regulatory compliance needs
- Experience with warehouse logistics applications
- Experience developing and supporting hardware/software systems across the product life cycle
- Experience with scalable production systems
- Experience with machine learning systems
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