Robotics Systems Development Engineer

Amazon Inc.; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Maternity and Parental Leave Options

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k) Plan

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Systems Development Engineer for its Manipulation Robotics team in North Reading, MA. You will build surrogate systems using commercial robots and open-source software to enable testing before the target platform is ready.

The role is hands-on in the lab and in code, collaborating with controls engineers and other specialists to drive the test and learning loop and inform deployment decisions across the fulfillment network.

Responsibilities

• Build the laboratory and test infrastructure that lets the team put new grasping ideas in front of real items quickly, adapting it as the design evolves and keeping it available, maintainable, and documented so engineers and scientists can run evaluations independently.
• Bring up robot arms and workcells in the lab, including motion, safety, and integration with the test harness.
• Partner with mechanical, electrical, controls, and science engineers to answer open design questions through testing, so tradeoffs across performance, cost, complexity, and reliability get settled with data.
• Establish the characterization procedures and infrastructure that inform finger, gripper, arm, and workcell decisions, and produce the data simulation is calibrated against.
• Instrument lab setups broadly from the start, anticipating what data will be needed to answer future questions, compare architectures, and inform which sensing the production design carries.
• Own the software that makes testing possible, including hardware integration, data acquisition, test automation, and analysis tooling.
• Write and adapt bench-level controls firmware, purpose-built to get a mechanism moving and instrumented quickly so an idea can be judged while it is still cheap to change.
• Automate item presentation to support volume and repeatability testing across a variety of workflows and robot embodiments.
• Diagnose problems across hardware, software, and the operating environment when a test result and reality disagree, and eliminate the contributing cause with a permanent fix.

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Systems Development Engineer for its Manipulation Robotics team in North Reading, MA. You will build surrogate systems using commercial robots and open-source software to enable testing before the target platform is ready.

The role is hands-on in the lab and in code, collaborating with controls engineers and other specialists to drive the test and learning loop and inform deployment decisions across the fulfillment network.