Production-Ready Robotics Test Lab Leader

Amazon Inc.; Wilmington (MA); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Test Lab Manager to lead hardware and physical system testing across multiple lab locations, building a lab organization from the ground up and ensuring safe, high‑quality data for verification and validation of robotics hardware.

You will own test environments, manage a multidisciplinary team, develop dashboards, and coordinate with hardware, software, and quality engineering partners to schedule, prioritize, and execute campaigns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in technical lab, robotics, electro‑mechanical, or automation environments, including operating, testing, and maintaining equipment.
• 3+ years of experience leading or managing technical teams or lab/test operations.
• Experience planning and executing hardware or physical system test or experimentation campaigns in partnership with cross‑functional engineering teams.
• Experience managing lab resources, equipment, supplies, and operational processes across one or more lab environments.
• Experience troubleshooting, diagnosing, and maintaining electro‑mechanical systems, control systems (e.g., PLC, I/O), or lab equipment.
• Experience interpreting engineering documentation, including CAD, drawings, schematics, equipment specifications, test procedures, and SOPs.
• Experience with project management of technical projects, including scheduling, tracking, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of hardware and physical system test campaigns across multiple lab locations, ensuring tests are on schedule and data quality is high.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams to understand test requirements, plan lab capacity, and support experimentation.
• Build and own test intake processes, standardizing how demand is submitted, prioritized, scheduled, and tracked across sites.
• Provide visibility into lab testing activities by dashboards and reporting for status, utilization, and throughput.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary lab team across multiple test lab locations, covering shifts and on‑call rotations.
• Own the operation, availability, and uptime of test environments, fixtures, lab equipment, PLC/I/O systems, motion capture, and environmental chambers.
• Establish and continuously improve lab processes, SOPs, and documentation for safe, repeatable, high‑throughput testing.
• Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance programs to maximize test readiness.
• Stand up new lab spaces, coordinating equipment sourcing, installation, calibration, and staff onboarding.
• Ensure safety compliance and manage lab safety protocols for robotics hardware testing.

Skills

Team management

Lab/robotics experience

Lead / manage teams

Test campaigns planning

Resource planning

Electro-mechanical troubleshooting

Documentation interpretation

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Robotics/Mech/EE/CS

Master's degree in Robotics/Mechatronics/CS

Tools

PLC & I/O

Motion capture systems

Environmental test chambers

OPC/UA integration

Python/C++

Job description

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Test Lab Manager to lead hardware and physical system testing across multiple lab locations, building a lab organization from the ground up and ensuring safe, high‑quality data for verification and validation of robotics hardware.

You will own test environments, manage a multidisciplinary team, develop dashboards, and coordinate with hardware, software, and quality engineering partners to schedule, prioritize, and execute campaigns.