The Senior Mechanical Engineer will focus on developing compliant grasping mechanisms and end-of-arm tooling for Amazon's Manipulation Robotics team. This team is responsible for creating robotic workcells that efficiently pick, grasp, and move items within Amazon's fulfillment network. The role involves working closely with scientists and controls engineers to ensure mechanical designs integrate seamlessly with control strategies. The engineer will oversee the entire design process, from concept to production, ensuring reliability and serviceability.

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
• 7+ years of mechanical design experience taking electromechanical products from concept through scale production
• Extensive experience designing mechanisms that integrate actuators, sensors, and moving assemblies
• Proficiency with 3D CAD and 2D detailed drawings, including GD&T (ASME Y14.5)
• Extensive experience designing for manufacturability and assembly, and tolerance analysis
• Experience with failure-avoidance and reliability methods such as DFMEA/PFMEA and fault-tree analysis
• Experience designing compliant, underactuated, or adaptive grasping mechanisms
• Experience designing for high-cycle fatigue life and field serviceability, including modular or replaceable tooling
• Modeling fluency for control use, including linear/non-linear FEA and low-order or pseudo-rigid-body models of compliant mechanisms
• Experience with end-of-arm tooling, grippers, or custom mechanical interfaces for robotic systems
• Experience owning designs from new-product introduction into sustaining engineering for fielded, high-utilization products
• Familiarity with actuator selection and drivetrain design for compact mechanisms

• Own the mechanical design of compliant mechanisms and end-of-arm tooling from concept through scale production
• Design for high-cycle reliability using fatigue analysis, tolerance stack-up, material selection, and failure-avoidance methods
• Guide a team of engineers to produce mechanisms that are serviceable, producible, and cost-effective at fleet volumes
• Characterize the mechanical behavior and response of compliant mechanisms, producing representative models for other disciplines
• Take designs through the full hardware cycle including requirements definition, CAD modeling, analysis, prototyping, and production ramp
• Partner with suppliers and contract manufacturers to select the right processes for high-volume production
• Define durability and reliability validation for components and full mechanisms in partnership with test engineering
• Root-cause field failures and feed them back into design to prevent recurring issues
• Mentor and develop other engineers, raising the standard through design review and technical assessment

• 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.