Senior Systems Engineer/Architect, Amazon Robotics Systems Architecture Team

- Experience with eliciting and clarifying business and end user needs, and connecting those needs to system concepts, requirements, and designs
- Experience leading technical collaborations and creating alignment across diverse groups (e.g., technical disciplines, subsystem teams, development partners)
- Experience identifying and analyzing dependencies, tradeoffs, and sensitivities across multi-disciplinary systems
- Understanding of systems engineering tools and best practices, and the ability to tailor the processes to help new product development teams go fast
- Experience developing test strategies and plans for complex hardware/software systems or system of systems.
- BS or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics, Physics, or another STEM discipline
- 7+ years of experience

- Experience developing and supporting hardware/software systems or systems or systems across the product life cycle
- Experience developing structured systems engineering artifacts (e.g., requirements, test cases, etc.) using requirements management tools (e.g., Jama, DOORS, Helix)
- Experience with developing safety-critical systems and supporting related regulatory compliance needs
- Experience with 1 or more relevant domains: Industrial Automation, Robotic Vehicles/Manipulation, Automotive, Medical Devices, Enterprise and/or Embedded Software, Autonomy, Perception and Controls, Human Centered Design
- 9+ years of experience in system design


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Are you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to these questions and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We are a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t imagine yet. We invent new improvements every day. We are Amazon Robotics and we will give you the tools and support you need to invent with us in ways that are rewarding, fulfilling and fun.

Amazon Robotics is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer/Architect to join a dynamic team that provides systems leadership for concept development, architecture, and design of robotics systems and industrial equipment.

Key job responsibilities
- Define, expand, and explore the design space for complex, multidisciplinary robotics and automation problems
- Identify and analyze the cross-functional tradeoffs between design alternatives, including impact on performance, schedule, cost, risk, complexity, and scale
- Break down and frame problems using CONOPS, use cases, structural/functional decompositions, and other system representations to clarify needs and align technical teams
- Identify design choices to ensure our products are safe, reliable, and usable, and can be deployed and supported at Amazon scale
- Build quantitative models and analyses (Excel, MATLAB, Python, internal tools) to conduct trade studies, refine requirements, and understand key system drivers across the integrated systems of systems
- Perform technical risk assessments (such as TRL, Gap Analysis, FMEDA, HARA, etc.), devise mitigation plans, and create system test strategies
- Develop and communicate system integration and evaluation strategies and plans in support of program learning, technical risk reduction, verification, and validation
- Drive and prioritize execution of system test campaigns that span lab and field testing environments in collaboration with subsystem development and test teams (test readiness reviews, test execution, post-test analysis and reporting)
- Mentor junior engineers in systems engineering best practices, and participate in hiring of new team members

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!


About the team
The Systems Architecture Team at Amazon Robotics works across disciplines to balance technical priorities and business drivers, simplify and ensure correctness of system design, and ensure efficient integration of subsystems across disparate domains. Our team focuses on concept and new product programs for complex systems that have concurrent development and tightly-coupled integration across disciplines, important safety requirements, or long hardware lead times or architectural constraints that inhibit rapid design iterations. The team adapts traditional systems engineering tools and best practices for the speed of development and evaluation at Amazon. We use multidisciplinary analysis, integrated modeling, and systems engineering frameworks to simultaneously increase performance and robustness, while reducing cost, timeline, and the number of iterations required to deliver value to the customer.