DESCRIPTION
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced innovative devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.
The Role:
As a Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - Automation, you will be responsible for defining, developing, and implementing controls and software standards to the assembly automation equipment. You will be a key member of the development team and will be the main interface between the Hardware and Product Design Engineering teams with local and Offshore Operations teams within Lab126 and our OEM partners. In this role, you will:
- Work across teams to design and develop systems which integrate hardware and software.
- Prototype and test concepts or features through simulators, emulators and with live robotic equipment.
- Work closely with Sr. Engineers to create production-ready systems which can be deployed at Amazon scale.
- Play an important role in tackling hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed.
- Work on proposed projects that will require taking guidance from Sr. Engineers to implement
- Operate tactfully with guidance within the organization.
Your work contributes to the long term strategic initiatives, you still work closely with senior engineers across teams on day-to-day questions and escalations.
Key job responsibilities
Research, design, and develop hardware sub-components for devices or electromechanical systems
Design sub-components that match defined specifications and requirements
Work with CAD modelling software and engineering tools (SolidWorks, MATLAB, etc.)
Work with suppliers to understand fabrication and manufacturing feasibility (DFM, tolerance analysis)
Assist in trade-off decisions (materials, availability, cost)
Deliver quality artefacts: design schematics, component/assembly drawings, bill of materials, trade studies
Troubleshoot, research root causes, and resolve defects
Document research and design alternatives considered
Participate in design, scoping, and prioritization discussions
Escalate risks or problems in solutions or project plans
A day in the life
You will develop software based on the guidance provided for Assembly Automation Equipment.
You will troubleshoot automation hardware equipment as per the guidance provided by Sr. HDE.
You will work closely with Sr. HDEs to develop hardware solution for assembly automation equipment.
You will create necessary documentation for the code development you perform.
About the team
We are a team of engineers, scientists, and builders within Amazon Robotics who refuse to accept "this is how it's always been done." We challenge the status quo — asking ourselves how to solve real factory-floor problems, not whether they can be solved. We paint our north star and work backwards from there, building the foundation blocks year over year. We are rigid in our vision and flexible in the path to get there.
Innovation is core to what we do. We stay welded to factory conditions and work backwards from real problems — automating to eliminate operator dependency. We embrace how technology is evolving, especially with AI reshaping the landscape, but we don't chase trends. We stay hungry and foolish, and mindset is everything.
If you want to build systems that directly powers robotic systems at scale across Amazon's global operations, this is your team.
