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 architect the robotic and collaborative robot cells that form the core of AWS's automation IP — from concept through production validation. These are the systems that eliminate manual assembly variability: automated fastening with 100% torque verification, precision component insertion with force-feedback and vision inspection, and multi-platform assembly cells that serve multiple product families through recipe-based changeover. You own the end-to-end cell design — robot selection, motion planning, end-of-arm tooling, safety architecture, and the replication package that allows a proven cell to deploy at any CM site globally without re-engineering. You lead external automation solution providers through design, build, and acceptance — ensuring solutions meet AWS specifications for global scalability.
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
• Design robotic work cells from concept: cell layout, robot selection, tool / Fixture design, safety zone definitions
• Program and optimize robot paths for pick-and-place, component assembly, precision insertion, and automated fastening operations
• Design human-robot collaborative workflows for cobot applications (heavy component assist, repetitive tasks)
• Conduct safety assessments per ISO 10218 (industrial) and ISO/TS 15066 (collaborative)
• Lead 3P automation solution providers in solution design, build, and acceptance
• Create standardized work cell replication packages for deployment across all CM sites with maximum cross-generation reuse
• Conduct ROI analyses and technology evaluations for new robotic/cobot solutions
• Validate automation cells against cycle time, quality, and reliability targets before production sign-off
• Lead 3P automation solution providers in solution design, build, and acceptance
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.
