Amazon
System Development Engineer II, Manipulation Robotics
$129K–$175K
North Reading, MA · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years building prototype or test hardware for electromechanical or robotic systems. Other experience requirements are stated without specific durations.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and operate laboratory test infrastructure, automation, and data pipelines to prototype, evaluate, and improve robotic manipulation systems.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain lab infrastructure, bring up robot arms and workcells, and automate repeatable testing.
- Develop hardware integration, data acquisition, test automation, analysis tools, and bench-level controls firmware.
- Partner with engineering and science teams to characterize mechanisms, resolve design questions with test data, and troubleshoot cross-system failures.
What they ask for
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals, including networking, storage, and operating systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years building prototype or test hardware for electromechanical or robotic systems, including hands-on fabrication, assembly, and sensor and actuator integration.
- Experience writing and maintaining software for hardware integration, test automation, data acquisition, or analysis in Python, C/C++, or a related language.
Nice to have
- Experience with embedded or controls firmware, such as motor control on a microcontroller or real-time target.
- Experience with ROS 2, robot-arm bring-up, open-source perception or manipulation packages, or rapid prototyping and fabrication tools.
Pay
129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, C/C++, Linux, ROS 2
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