Industrial Engineer-Automation, Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering

About the Role

You will execute production line layout optimization and capacity modeling within the automation architecture defined by the L6 engineering team. This means integrating robotic cells, sub-assembly stations, manual workstations, and material flow paths into production systems that achieve target throughput across multiple product families. You conduct time/motion studies, line balancing simulations, and floor layout iterations that help transform manual factories into automated facilities while maintaining production continuity.

Key job responsibilities

• Design automated line layouts with robotic cell positioning, workstation placement, and material flow paths at contract manufacturer sites
• Conduct time/motion studies and line balancing to achieve target cycle times and UPH across platforms
• Develop capacity models with bottleneck identification supporting production planning decisions
• Create standard work documentation and throughput models by product mix applicable across contract manufacturers
• Perform site-to-site benchmarking on throughput per square foot and labor productivity
• Own value stream maps identifying non-value-added steps and automation opportunities
• Design floor layouts for automation POC labs at contract manufacturer sites
• Partner with contract manufacturer site teams on layout implementation and validate throughput targets during ramp
• Design flexible line architectures supporting platform transition across product generations

About The Team

We are building a centralized automation Center of Excellence that owns the process specification and IP for how AWS hardware gets assembled. The Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering team is responsible for engineering — defining automated process requirements, designing and proving solutions at proof-of-concept, and maintaining AWS-owned intellectual property that scales globally. We work within a collaborative framework across Hardware Engineering (product design for automation), Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering (process specification and validation), and Manufacturing Operations (deployment and scaling) — ensuring automation is engineered once, proven once, and deployed everywhere.