Senior Innovation Engineer, Worldwide Innovation Engineering

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

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About The Position

Amazon opened its virtual doors in 1995 and strives to be the world’s most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they
might want to buy online. Amazon Logistics (AMZL) is looking to hire an
experienced, innovative, hands-on, and customer-obsessed Innovation Engineer to
lead the application of automation into our WW (World Wide) Delivery Station
Network. The successful candidate will be a member of the Amazon Logistics
Innovation Engineering team and will be responsible to define, test, validate
and implement various Robotics and Automation systems in the Delivery Stations
network.
This role requires experienced and entrepreneurial minded Engineers with
combined robotics, engineering, planning and analytical skills. This individual
will own robotics and automation implementation projects end-to-end and will
partner with Robotics, SW Tech Teams, Process Engineering teams, Operations,
Facilities and Engineering teams to effectively operate advanced robotics
technology across WW Amazon's last mile network.

Requirements

• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent industrial background
• 5+ years’ demonstrated Engineering experience in an automation, robotics or manufacturing environment
• 5+ years engineering project management experience
• Experience across the full project lifecycle; from analysis and design to implementation
• Experience with complex projects in operations, processes, or performance improvement

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• Experience with the project management of technical projects
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues, drive improvements, and implement preventive measures
• Ability to manage multiple high-priority tasks simultaneously
• Ability to support complex technical discussions with a variety of groups including software engineers, hardware engineers, technicians, and operators
• Pragmatic and hands-on working style.
• Experience in PLC programming
• Experience with EAM Tools

Responsibilities

• Key partner to work closely with the Product teams and WW Engineering to drive customer (AMZL) requirements for implementing various robotics solutions in AMZL.
• Identify process paths to automate based on various factors; labor, cost, safety, performance, etc. working with Process Engineering and Operations partners
• Author business cases to introduce automation to the Delivery Stations network in NA & EU to improve productivity
• Define pilot criteria and success metrics to validate prototype units
• Collaboration with internal teams to provide technical documentation such as product specifications, integration requirements, etc.
• Partner with Mechanical, Controls and Software teams to plan the technologies integration in operation
• Partner with simulation team for validating new ideas and concepts to automate manual process paths
• Contribute to design the Delivery Station of the future combining Robotics, Automation, IoT and Machine Learning disciplines.

Benefits

• Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.
• The base pay for this position ranges from $128,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $213,600/year in our highest geographic market.
• Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Amazon is a total compensation company.
• Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits [https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits].

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level