Amazon

Hardware Development Engineer, Design Engineering, Sort & Ultrafast Engineering

Amazon$100K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in mechanical engineering or equivalent field
  • Prototyping and implementation expertise
  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related area
  • Track record in developing functional specifications and design verification plans
  • Experience in creating functional test procedures
  • Familiarity with SolidWorks simulation or Ansys Finite Element analysis tools (preferred)
  • Experience designing complex mechanical products at scale (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and innovation efforts for sortation and transportation solutions
  • Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors for cost-effective solutions
  • Manage multiple projects while influencing and communicating effectively with stakeholders
  • Provide technical leadership on large-scale engineering projects
  • Develop compelling business cases to present to senior executives
  • Create detailed roadmaps and technical solutions
  • Oversee equipment specification, process design, and site layout

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on high-impact, high-visibility projects
  • Fast-paced, dynamic work environment
  • Collaboration with highly skilled engineers
  • Commitment to professional growth and development
  • Involvement in a variety of project types, including green-field and retrofit projects
Full Job Description
We're looking to a high-impact Hardware Engineer to our team. In this role, you will collaborate with internal and external teams to design high-quality, cost-effective solutions for our sortation and distribution systems. Your projects may include green-fields, brown-fields, and retrofits, including highly automated fulfillment centers, cross-dock facilities, and transportation centers. Your projects will be a variety of template-based and designed-from-scratch along with ownership of Process Designs end to end complimenting each Design.

You will work with a team of highly skilled and highly engaged engineers in a fast-paced and often ambiguous environment. Our team works on hundreds of projects each year. You will be challenged; you will learn; you will work on high impact, high visibility projects; you will grow.

Key job responsibilities

- Lead and coordinate design and innovation efforts to develop optimal solutions for the sortation and transportation network through equipment specification, material flow, process design, site layout, and intellectual property considerations.

- Collaboration with internal teams and external vendors to generate high-quality, cost-effective solutions in very short periods of time.

- Simultaneously manage multiple projects and tasks while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external business partners, contractors and vendors.

- Provide technical leadership for large-scale engineering projects

- Effective communication skills, ability to execute the vision, detailed roadmap, and specific technical solutions to make a compelling business case with senior executives.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience

- Experience with prototyping and implementation

- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of SolidWorks simulation or Ansys Finite Element analysis tools

- Experience in the design of complex mechanical products and equipment at volume

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Amazon Careers

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Net Income
$21.3 billion
Founded
1994
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+28.1%
Revenue
$386 billion
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