Senior Mechanical Engineer, Manipulation Robotics
Pubblicato il 02-10-2026 - Amazon in Asti
Senior Mechanical Engineer, Manipulation Robotics
Job ID: 10558153 | Amazon.com Services LLC
Manipulation robots increasingly need to execute contact-rich grasping within cluttered containers, requiring compliant mechanisms that grip a wide range of items securely without damaging them. At Amazon, our end effectors must also survive continuous, high-cycle contact in facilities that run around the clock. Given the scale of our operations, these mechanisms must be simple to manufacture, deploy, and support. We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to own compliant grasping mechanisms and end-of-arm tooling from concept through production, with reliability, fatigue life, and serviceability designed in from the start.
The Manipulation Robotics team develops robotic workcells to pick, grasp, and move millions of items and packages across Amazon's fulfillment network. You will own these mechanisms end to end, and work closely with our scientists and controls engineers so the gripper's mechanical behavior is designed as part of the control strategy.
These designs are judged over millions of cycles in the field, not on a first article that works in the lab.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the mechanical design of compliant mechanisms and end-of-arm tooling from concept through scale production, including sustaining support once fielded. Apply judgment about where to design for reuse and extension across applications.
- Design for high-cycle reliability, using fatigue analysis, tolerance stack-up, material selection, and failure-avoidance methods (DFMEA/PFMEA, fault-tree analysis).
- Guide a team of engineers to produce mechanisms that are serviceable, producible, and cost-effective at fleet volumes. This includes field-replaceable or modular designs, design for manufacturability and assembly, and GD&T.;
- Characterize the mechanical behavior and response of compliant mechanisms, producing representative models that other disciplines can design against.
- Take designs t