Senior Mechanical Engineer, End-of-Arm Tooling & Grasping

Amazon; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to own compliant grasping mechanisms and end-of-arm tooling from concept through production for our Manipulation Robotics team. You will collaborate with scientists and controls engineers to ensure the gripper behaves as part of the control strategy, with fatigue life and reliability designed in from the start for millions of cycles in fulfillment centers.

This role requires 7+ years of mechanical design experience and strong background in GD&T,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years of mechanical design experience taking electromechanical products from concept through scale production.
• Extensive experience designing mechanisms that integrate actuators, sensors, and moving assemblies.
• Proficiency with 3D CAD and 2D detailed drawings, including GD&T (ASME Y14.5).
• Extensive experience designing for manufacturability and assembly, and tolerance analysis.
• Experience with failure-avoidance and reliability methods such as DFMEA/PFMEA and fault-tree analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own the mechanical design of compliant mechanisms and end-of-arm tooling from concept through scale production, including sustaining support once fielded.
• Design for high-cycle reliability, using fatigue analysis, tolerance stack-up, material selection, and failure-avoidance methods (DFMEA/PFMEA, fault-tree analysis).
• Guide a team of engineers to produce mechanisms that are serviceable, producible, and cost-effective at fleet volumes.
• Characterize the mechanical behavior and response of compliant mechanisms, producing representative models for other disciplines.
• Take designs through the full hardware cycle: requirements definition, CAD modeling, analysis, prototyping, design reviews, drawings, supplier selection, verification, and ramp.
• Partner with suppliers and contract manufacturers to select processes for high-volume production.
• Define durability and reliability validation with test engineering.
• Root-cause field failures and feed back into design to prevent recurrence.
• Mentor and develop other engineers and raise the standard through design reviews.

Skills

Mechanical design

GD&T proficiency

Tolerance analysis

Design for manufacturability

3D CAD

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

3D CAD software

FMEA/PFMEA tooling

Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to own compliant grasping mechanisms and end-of-arm tooling from concept through production for our Manipulation Robotics team. You will collaborate with scientists and controls engineers to ensure the gripper behaves as part of the control strategy, with fatigue life and reliability designed in from the start for millions of cycles in fulfillment centers.

This role requires 7+ years of mechanical design experience and strong background in GD&T,