Sensor Systems Engineer, Robotic Vision — Customer‑Driven

Amazon; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 175,000; 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 Robotics seeks a Sensor System Engineer (Robotic vision) in North Reading, MA to bridge customers, product strategy, and technical execution. You will translate real‑world needs into sensor solutions for next‑gen robotic platforms, engaging cross‑functionally with hardware, software, optical, and manufacturing teams.

The role focuses on defining requirements, shaping the sensor roadmap, and mitigating technical risks while ensuring performance, cost, and reliability across sensor domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related fields.
• Experience communicating with customers, technical, regulatory, business teams, and management to collect requirements, describe product features, and technical designs.
• Experience working effectively across cross‑functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization.
• Experience translating customer needs into innovative and detailed product requirements for customer‑facing online and mobile products/services.
• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, sensor development, or related technical roles.
• Strong understanding of sensor technologies (imaging, depth sensing, LiDAR, ToF, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Customer Engagement & Requirements Gathering: Serve as a primary technical point of contact for internal and external customers. Conduct discovery sessions, gather use‑case requirements, and translate customer needs into quantifiable technical specifications and design goals.
• Product Definition & Roadmap Support: Partner with product management to define product requirements, prioritize features, and shape the sensor product roadmap based on customer feedback, market trends, and technical feasibility.
• System Architecture: Contribute to sensor system architecture selections, ensuring designs meet performance, cost, reliability, and integration requirements across mechanical, electrical, and optical domains.
• Technology Benchmarking & Competitive Analysis: Evaluate emerging sensing technologies, benchmark against competitive solutions, and identify opportunities to differentiate. Maintain awareness of industry trends, academic research, and market dynamics in robotics sensing (navigation, perception, manipulation).
• Technical Challenge Identification: Proactively identify and communicate technical risks and enablement problems for customer applications. Develop mitigation strategies and trade‑off assessments to guide engineering selections.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Work across hardware, firmware, optical, mechanical, electrical, test, and manufacturing teams to ensure cohesive system‑level solutions. Communicate effectively across disciplines to align stakeholders on requirements and priorities.

Skills

Systems engineering

Sensor development

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer engagement

Education

Bachelors in Electrical/Computer/Systems Engineering

Job description

Amazon Robotics seeks a Sensor System Engineer (Robotic vision) in North Reading, MA to bridge customers, product strategy, and technical execution. You will translate real‑world needs into sensor solutions for next‑gen robotic platforms, engaging cross‑functionally with hardware, software, optical, and manufacturing teams.

The role focuses on defining requirements, shaping the sensor roadmap, and mitigating technical risks while ensuring performance, cost, and reliability across sensor domains.