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.

About the Role:

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).

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 (chassis, heatsinks, DIMMs)

About the team

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.

Basic Qualifications

- 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 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…