Lead Solutions Design Engineer, AR - SRT (FF)

About the role

The AR Sortation Solutions Design Team is searching for an innovative and solutions-oriented engineer to design next-generation automated sortation systems for Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FCs), Sort Centers (SCs), and Amazon Logistics (AMZL).

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