Amazon · 12 hours ago
Senior Interdisciplinary Systems Engineer, Amazon Industrial Robotics
Middlesex County, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$151K/yr - $205K/yr
7+ years expAmazon Industrial Robotics is seeking a talented, enthusiastic, and motivated Interdisciplinary Systems Engineer to join a dynamic team that provides leadership for concept development, architecture, and design of robotics systems and industrial equipment. The role involves defining design spaces for complex robotics problems, conducting technical risk assessments, and mentoring junior engineers.
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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 collaboration with subsystem development and test teams (test readiness reviews, test execution, post-test analysis and reporting)
Guide and inform, via analyses, cross-functional architecture definition
Mentor junior engineers in engineering best practices, and participate in hiring of new team members
Qualification
Required
Experience analyzing dependencies, tradeoffs, and sensitivities across multi-disciplinary systems
Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) field
7+ years of work experience
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, controls, functional safety, program management)
Preferred
Experience with industrial robotics and automated material handling solutions
Experience with machine learning systems
Experience developing and supporting hardware/software systems across the product life cycle
Experience with scalable production systems
Experience with developing safety-critical systems and supporting related regulatory compliance needs
Experience with 1 or more relevant domains: Industrial Automation, Robotic Vehicles/Manipulation, Autonomy, Perception and Controls
9+ years of experience in integrated system design
Benefits
Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Parental leave
Company
Amazon
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