The Senior Industrial Designer, Safety Design Engineering provides technical leadership in designing safe systems across Amazon's global operations network. This role ensures hazards are eliminated at the design stage and safety requirements are integrated into the architecture of buildings, equipment, automation, and Material Handling Equipment (MHE) from the earliest concept phases.
You will define how safety is engineered into new technologies and facility designs, guide cross-functional partners through safety-critical design decisions, and represent Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) in capital programs and early design reviews. This position influences long-range planning, network design strategies, and vendor engagements, ensuring safety is established as an engineering requirement embedded in design standards, planning processes, and architectural decisions.
The role operates at network scale, applying deep technical judgment to resolve complex design issues across organizations while setting expectations for how Amazon integrates Prevention-through-Design (PtD) principles into system architecture covering buildings, automation, MHE, and high-energy systems.
Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Influence WHS design standards and safety-related elements of Amazon's system architecture, including PtD criteria, engineering calculations, simulation requirements, MHE envelopes, machine safety, ergonomics, noise-vibration-harshness (NVH), maintenance access, and high-hazard energy systems
Apply first-principles engineering, analytical modeling, and quantitative risk methods to validate architectural assumptions and define safe system design envelopes for buildings, automation, MHE, and high-energy systems
Develop mechanisms to decompose complex facility, automation, and MHE architectures into safety requirements and operationalized mechanisms ensuring consistent design quality across programs, regions, and business units
Drive cross-disciplinary engineering alignment across mechanical, electrical, controls, and systems engineering teams, partnering with WWDE, RME, GES, ACES, and Operations to integrate safety requirements into core architecture decisions
Develop and maintain enduring engineering mechanisms-standards, analytical models, architectural specifications, templates, and calculators-that embed PtD from early concept through commissioning
Resolve ambiguous, safety-critical engineering challenges with no established industry standard, including technical conflicts involving certification paths, racking and MHE geometry, and system-level safety margins
Serve as technical decision owner for Requests for Proposals (RFPs), vendor evaluations, and engineered safety controls; act as principal reviewer in architecture and design reviews for automation technologies, MHE systems, facility layouts, and high-energy systems
Benchmark Amazon's safety design architecture against industry engineering standards and emerging technologies, ensuring ahead-of-regulation design performance and long-term strategic alignment
Influence system architecture quality, lifecycle safety performance, operational reliability, and maintainability across Amazon's global operations network, including OP1/OP2 inputs, risk-reduction targets, and long-range planning
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 WGM team's vision is to set the global standard for mobile equipment safety excellence by integrating advanced technology, data analytics, and human-centered design. We create sustainable safety solutions that protect Amazon associates, optimize operations, and advance workplace safety innovation across our worldwide network.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of design & innovation, research & development work experience
- Experience with design & innovation and research & development
- Experience in management of engineering design projects
- Experience using business or technical software like MS Excel, MS Project, and CAD software
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (any domain)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of specialty (with progressive responsibility) experience
- Master's degree in Engineering (any domain), Operations, Business Administration, or a related field
- Knowledge of concepts like system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, electronic system design, and decision making
- Experience with complex automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, and systems and high-speed manufacturing
- Experience with design-in-safety
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, TN, Nashville - 125,500.00 - 169,800.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 132,100.00 - 178,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Bellevue - 132,100.00 - 178,800.00 USD annually
