Amazon
Senior Mechanical Engineer, Manipulation Robotics
$137K–$186K
North Reading, MA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of mechanical design experience taking electromechanical products from concept through scale production.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
About the job
Own compliant grasping mechanisms and robotic end-of-arm tooling from concept through production, designing for high-cycle reliability, manufacturability, and field serviceability.
What you'll do
- Lead mechanical design through production and sustaining support, including CAD, analysis, prototyping, drawings, supplier selection, verification, and production ramp.
- Design for reliability and scale using fatigue analysis, tolerance analysis, failure-avoidance methods, and serviceable, manufacturable designs.
- Characterize mechanism behavior, define durability validation, investigate field failures, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
- 7+ years of mechanical design experience taking electromechanical products from concept through scale production.
- Extensive experience designing mechanisms integrating actuators, sensors, and moving assemblies, and designing for manufacturability, assembly, and tolerance analysis.
- Proficiency with 3D CAD and 2D detailed drawings, including GD&T (ASME Y14.5); experience with DFMEA/PFMEA and fault-tree analysis.
Nice to have
- Experience designing compliant, underactuated, or adaptive grasping mechanisms and robotic grippers or end-of-arm tooling.
- Experience with high-cycle fatigue, field serviceability, compliant-mechanism modeling, actuator selection, or drivetrain design.
Pay
137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
3D CAD, GD&T (ASME Y14.5), DFMEA/PFMEA, fault-tree analysis, linear/non-linear FEA, low-order or pseudo-rigid-body models
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