Actuator Systems Engineer — Shape Real-World Robot Motion

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 157,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks an Actuator Systems Engineer to own actuator performance from bench to consumer robots. You will model, test, and iterate on motors, transmissions, and firmware to meet safety, reliability, and efficiency goals.

You will collaborate across electrical, mechanical, and firmware design, plan characterization tests, build electromechanical and thermal models, and contribute to motor drive and control software.

Qualifications

• Developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures.
• PhD in EE, ME, Robotics, Physics, or a Master’s with 4+ years of actuators experience.
• Experience building models of electromechanical or thermal systems and validating them against test data.
• Hands-on experience testing and characterizing motors or actuators.
• Experience writing embedded motor control firmware in C/C++, and analyzing data in Python.
• Experience leading a technical project from concept through validation.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run characterization testing on actuators, covering torque constant, friction, efficiency, thermal behavior, wear, and translate results into models/specs.
• Build and maintain electromechanical and thermal models to predict performance and set safe limits.
• Contribute to electrical design of the actuator including motor selection, drivers, sensing, and protection.
• Contribute to mechanical design including transmissions, bearings, housings, and thermal paths.
• Write and tune motor control firmware, including calibration and fault detection.

Skills

Functional specs

Design verification

Test procedures

Actuator modeling

Embedded C/C++

Python data analysis

Technical leadership

Education

PhD in EE/ME/Robotics/Physics

Master's +4 years industry experience

Tools

C/C++

Python

Simulink

MATLAB

Thermal Modeling Tools

Job description

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks an Actuator Systems Engineer to own actuator performance from bench to consumer robots. You will model, test, and iterate on motors, transmissions, and firmware to meet safety, reliability, and efficiency goals.

You will collaborate across electrical, mechanical, and firmware design, plan characterization tests, build electromechanical and thermal models, and contribute to motor drive and control software.