Senior Hardware Development Manager, Robotic Sortation Technology

Overview

Lead the strategic design and development of hardware systems powering one of the world's largest commercial fleets of mobile robotic sortation and automated outbound systems at Amazon Robotics. In this role, you'll manage a highly talented hardware development team while influencing organizational strategy to deliver safe, cost-effective, and reliable robotic sortation solutions that transform Amazon's fulfillment operations. You'll operate at both strategic and tactical levels—defining long-term roadmaps while remaining accountable for execution excellence.

Partner with senior leaders across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Regulatory, and other organizations to drive alignment on complex technical and business decisions. Your leadership will directly impact how millions of packages are sorted through Amazon's network every day.

• Hire and manage a team of exceptional engineers
• Own success across multiple development engagements
• Help your team Invent and Simplify to solve really hard business and technical challenges
• Influence the strategic roadmap
• Set operational metrics and drive best practices

Your day might start with a design review for a next-generation robotic system, where you guide your team through complex trade-offs between performance, cost, and manufacturability. You'll spend time coaching one of your leads on how to force-multiply their team's technical skills while preparing for an upcoming promotion cycle. Mid-morning, you'll join a strategic planning session with senior leaders and Principal Engineers to align on the multi-year hardware roadmap, contributing insights on emerging technologies and capability gaps.

After lunch, you'll dive deep into a manufacturing issue affecting field deployment, working with your team and supply chain partners to identify root causes and implement corrective actions. Your afternoon includes one-on-ones with your team members, where you provide guidance on handling key design challenges and career development. You'll review operational metrics with your organization, celebrating wins and identifying areas for improvement.

The day closes with a cross-functional meeting where you build consensus on a technical decision, balancing input from multiple stakeholders to drive the right outcome for customers. Throughout it all, you remain connected to both strategic direction and tactical execution, ensuring your organization delivers results while building capability for the future.

We at Amazon Robotics empower a smarter, faster, more consistent customer experience through automation. We design, test, and deploy innovative robotic solutions that move and sort billions of items through our fulfillment network every year. Our hardware team is responsible for delivering and maintaining safe, cost-effective, and reliable robotic systems by effectively integrating Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, and Software functions throughout the product lifecycle.

We collaborate closely with Supply Chain, Regulatory, and Manufacturing partners to bring ground breaking automation from concept to reality. Our work directly impacts customer experience, operational efficiency, and Amazon's ability to deliver on our promises. We operate one of the largest commercial fleets of mobile robotic outbound automation systems in the world, and we're just getting started. As a member of our Sortation leadership team, you'll work alongside colleagues who are committed to solving complex technical challenges while fostering an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives strengthen our solutions.

You'll help shape how we develop talent, make strategic decisions, and build the next generation of automated outbound robotic systems that serve our customers.

• 10+ years of engineering team management experience
• Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Experience in engineering team management
• Experience in manufacturing, process, or industrial engineering
• Experience developing and testing mechanical robotics equipment
• Experience in system-level integration
• Experience with…