Automation Mechanical Engr, Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering

Description

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

You will own the mechanical design IP that every automation cell depends on — 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 AWS’s automation replication strategy.

Our scope covers all server and rack assembly across all architectures and platforms — compute, AI/ML accelerators, storage, and networking. We design 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).

• 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 (chassis, heatsinks, DIMMs)

We are building a centralized automation Center of Excellence that owns the process specification and IP for how AWS hardware gets assembled. The Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering 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. We work 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/MS Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• 7+ years designing fixtures, tooling, or end‑of‑arm tooling for automated systems
• Proficiency in 3D CAD (Solid Works, Creo, or equivalent)
• Experience with tolerance analysis and GD&T
• Knowledge of manufacturing materials and fabrication processes (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 (calipers, micrometers, profilometers, CMM)
• Rapid prototyping and design iteration experience
• Experience with robot integration (mounting, payload considerations, reach envelope)
• Multi‑platform fixture design (quick‑change, modular, recipe‑based)
• Vacuum gripper and force‑limited end‑effector design
• Electronics or…