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Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer

Amazon

Location

North Reading, MA

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/11/2026

Compensation

$163,400 - $221,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.1% approval+9% YoY
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Job description

Amazon is looking for a Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer to lead the test strategy for electromechanical products from prototype to high-volume manufacturing. This senior technical leadership role involves defining test architecture, setting standards, and ensuring the test infrastructure evolves with the product. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in manufacturing test systems and will work closely with cross-functional teams to align validation and production capabilities. The position requires strategic thinking and the ability to influence product architecture decisions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
  • 10+ years of manufacturing test engineering experience for electromechanical or robotic products.
  • Experience owning manufacturing test strategy for new product introduction from concept through volume production.
  • Hands-on experience developing and deploying in-line and end-of-line functional test systems.
  • Proficiency in test software/frameworks and DAQ/instrumentation specification.
  • Demonstrated experience architecting test data pipelines for dashboarding and analytics.
  • Ability to influence at a senior level across engineering, validation, quality, and manufacturing leadership.
  • Experience with hardware-in-the-loop test system design and deployment at production scale.
  • Experience standing up test operations for a greenfield or brownfield manufacturing facility.
  • Experience in robotics or complex electromechanical manufacturing test.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the end-to-end manufacturing test strategy across build iterations.
  • Serve as the test voice in design trades and influence product architecture for improved testability.
  • Establish test frameworks, standards, and decision criteria for the engineering team.
  • Partner with Engineering, Validation, and Quality leadership to align V&V requirements with production test capability.
  • Architect the test data strategy and ensure real-time production visibility.
  • Drive the design and deployment of manufacturing test systems for high throughput.
  • Design operator-friendly test setups that inform high-volume line requirements.
  • Specify and procure test instrumentation and make strategic build-vs-buy decisions.
  • Scale test solutions from single-station to multi-station, operator-run systems.
  • Analyze test data to drive quality and design improvements at a systems level.

Benefits

  • Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Amazon Com Services Llc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

3,290

FY2026

Approval rate

99.1%

FY2026

LCA certified

32,937

FY2026

Entry-level share

10.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+9%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-44%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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