Amazon
Actuator Systems Engineer, Fauna
$157K–$213K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- PhD in EE, ME, Robotics, Physics, or a related field, or a Master’s degree in one of these fields and 4+ years of industry experience developing actuators, motors, or other electromechanical systems.
- Education
- PhD in EE, ME, Robotics, Physics, or a related field, or a Master’s degree in one of these fields.
About the job
Develops and tests electromechanical actuators for robots, modeling performance and iterating on hardware and firmware to meet specifications.
What you'll do
- Plan and run actuator characterization tests and turn results into models and specifications.
- Build and maintain electromechanical and thermal models to predict performance and support safe operating limits.
- Contribute to actuator electrical and mechanical design and write and tune motor-control firmware.
What they ask for
- Experience developing functional specifications, design verification plans, and functional test procedures.
- Experience building and validating electromechanical or thermal models and hands-on experience testing and characterizing motors or actuators.
- Experience writing embedded motor-control firmware in C or C++ and analyzing data in Python.
- Experience leading a technical project from concept through validation.
Nice to have
- Experience designing robotic actuators, brushless motors, field-oriented control, power electronics, gear trains, thermal models, or reliability/life testing.
- Experience taking actuator designs from prototype to production with suppliers; related publications or patents.
Pay
157,100.00 - 212,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Python
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