Lead Solutions Design Engineer, AR - SRT (FF)

About the role

Are you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to any of these and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We are a smart, collaborative team of doers that work passionately to apply imaginative advances in robotics and software to solve real-world problems that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. We invent new improvements every day. We are Amazon Robotics and we will give you the tools and support you need to invent with us in ways that are rewarding, fulfilling and fun.

Responsibilities

• Design automated sortation, package stacking into containers, and movement solutions that integrate with upstream and downstream systems to meet throughput requirements and Amazon design standards.
• Analyze operational and financial metrics to inform design decisions and feature prioritization.
• Partner with systems engineering and operations teams to optimize deployed solution performance.
• Lead multiple concurrent projects while coordinating with internal teams, external partners, contractors, and vendors.
• Build simulation models and conduct throughput analyses to validate solution feasibility and solve complex integration challenges and tradeoffs.
• Drive technical design projects from concept through implementation, understanding system-of-systems interactions across robotics, MHE, and facility infrastructure.
• Define solution requirements and drive them to product teams, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical capabilities.
• Collaborate with global stakeholders through all design phases from initial design and systems integration through construction and startup.
• Work with product management and systems engineering to develop next-generation features that enhance solution performance.
• Travel up to 15% to sites in the US, Canada, and EU.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of design & innovation, research & development work experience
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a foreign equivalent
• Experience with design & innovation and research & development
• Experience in management of engineering design projects
• Knowledge of concepts like system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, electronic system design, and decision making
• Experience modeling or simulating large-scale, high-volume distribution centers
• Experience with design-in-safety