Automation Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering

Amazon Web Services Hardware Engineering team is looking for experienced professionals to help build the worlds premier cloud computing platform. The Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering team designs validates and deploys automation solutions including robotics cobots vision inspection AI-powered quality systems and automated assembly workflows across contract manufacturer sites worldwide.

About the Role: You will own the mechanical design IP that every automation cell depends on including fixtures jigs end-of-arm tooling grippers and custom mechanical interfaces between robots and product components. Every cobot needs tooling. Every station needs fixtures. Every platform changeover needs quick-change adapters. You define the mechanical design architecture and reuse strategy: modular fixture libraries cross-platform EOAT standards and design-for-reuse principles that ensure mechanical hardware scales across all platforms and contract manufacturer sites without redesign. You independently lead mechanical design vendors and own the fixture/tooling IP library that is core to AWSs automation replication strategy.

The scope covers all server and rack assembly across all architectures and platforms including compute AI/ML accelerators storage and networking. The team designs intelligent predictive-analytics-driven production systems where every station is sensor-driven AI-optimized and self-correcting turning assembly lines into programmable data-generating platforms that scale capacity without scaling headcount. This role requires the engineer to operate in a fast-paced multi-platform international manufacturing environment with travel to contract manufacturer sites (up to 25-30% travel anticipated).


Key job responsibilities
Define mechanical design architecture: fixture library standards tools and fixture reuse strategy modular design principles
Design fixtures jigs and work-holding devices for automated assembly operations
Design tools and fixtures: custom grippers vacuum end-effectors tool changers per application
Create 3D CAD models for cell mechanical integration (robot mounting conveyor interfaces part presentation)
Own and maintain design library of validated fixtures/tools for cross-platform reuse
Lead mechanical design vendors through specification evaluation and acceptance
Prototype and validate mechanical designs through rapid iteration (3D printing machining)
Design pick-point interfaces between automation equipment and server components


About the team
About the team: The Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering team is building a centralized automation Center of Excellence that owns the process specification and IP for how AWS hardware gets assembled. The team is responsible for engineering defining automated process requirements designing and proving solutions at proof-of-concept and maintaining AWS-owned intellectual property that scales globally. The team works within a collaborative framework across Hardware Engineering (product design for automation) Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering (process specification and validation) and Manufacturing Operations (deployment and scaling) ensuring automation is engineered once proven once and deployed everywhere.

- BS degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
- 7 years designing fixtures tooling or end-of-arm tooling for automated systems
- Proficiency in 3D CAD (e.g. SolidWorks Creo)
- Experience with tolerance analysis and GD&T
- Knowledge of manufacturing materials and fabrication processes (e.g. machining 3D printing sheet metal)
- Experience designing for precision assembly (tight tolerances repeatable positioning)
- Experience defining mechanical design standards for multi-site replication

- Experience with precision measurement and inspection devices (e.g. calipers micrometers profilometers CMM)
- Rapid prototyping and design iteration experience
- Experience with robot integration (mounting payload considerations reach envelope)
- Multi-platform fixture design (e.g. quick-change modular recipe-based)
- Vacuum gripper and force-limited end-effector design
- Electronics or precision hardware manufacturing environment
- Experience leading mechanical design vendors and managing fixture IP libraries

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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 KY Cincinnati - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually
USA TX Houston - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually
USA UT Salt Lake City - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually