Amazon Web Services’ Hardware Engineering team is looking for experienced professionals to help build the world’s premier cloud computing platform. Our Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering team designs, validates, and deploys automation solutions — robotics, cobots, vision inspection, AI-powered quality systems, and automated assembly workflows — across contract manufacturer sites worldwide.
About the Role: You will own the mechanical design IP that every automation cell depends on — fixtures, jigs, end-of-arm tooling, grippers, and custom mechanical interfaces between robots and product components. Every cobot needs tooling. Every station needs fixtures. Every platform changeover needs quick-change adapters. You define the mechanical design architecture and reuse strategy: modular fixture libraries, cross-platform EOAT standards, and design-for-reuse principles that ensure mechanical hardware scales across all platforms and contract manufacturer sites without redesign. You independently lead mechanical design vendors and own the fixture/tooling IP library that is core to AWS’s automation replication strategy.
Our scope covers all server and rack assembly across all architectures and platforms — compute, AI/ML accelerators, storage, and networking. We design intelligent, predictive-analytics-driven production systems where every station is sensor-driven, AI-optimized, and self-correcting — turning assembly lines into programmable, data-generating platforms that scale capacity without scaling headcount.This role requires the engineer to operate in a fast-paced, multi-platform international manufacturing environment with travel to contract manufacturer sites (up to 25–30% travel anticipated).
Key job responsibilities
• Define mechanical design architecture: fixture library standards, Tools and Fixture reuse strategy, modular design principles
• Design fixtures, jigs, and work-holding devices for automated assembly operations
• Design Tools and Fixtures: custom grippers, vacuum end-effectors, tool changers per application
• Create 3D CAD models for cell mechanical integration (robot mounting, conveyor interfaces, part presentation)
• Own and maintain design library of validated fixtures/tools for cross-platform reuse
• Lead mechanical design vendors through specification, evaluation, and acceptance
• Prototype and validate mechanical designs through rapid iteration (3D printing, machining)
• Design pick-point interfaces between automation equipment and server components (chassis, heatsinks, DIMMs)
About the team
We are building a centralized automation Center of Excellence that owns the process specification and IP for how AWS hardware gets assembled. The Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering team is responsible for engineering — defining automated process requirements, designing and proving solutions at proof-of-concept, and maintaining AWS-owned intellectual property that scales globally. We work within a collaborative framework across Hardware Engineering (product design for automation), Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering (process specification and validation), and Manufacturing Operations (deployment and scaling) — ensuring automation is engineered once, proven once, and deployed everywhere.
