HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER, MSP-CX CI

Amazon is seeking an experienced and technology oriented Hardware Development Engineer, to drive a culture of innovation and Continuous Improvement for EU Team of Mechatronics and Sustainable Packaging.
Successful candidates will have strong experience in hardware technology development and testing in the mechatronics area, and be highly motivated individuals who have several years of experience in Robotics, Autonomous Mobility, Sortation, Packing equipment.
The candidate will work in the mechatronics and packaging Continuous Improvement team and will develop innovating solutions to improve our existing fleet of automation machines WW.
The HW Dev Engineer.
• develops pragmatic hardware solutions, building and/or designing flexible systems without over-engineering, choosing simple, straightforward solutions over more complex ones.
The Engineer understands the process to be automated and defines accordingly the technical KPIs that the industrial machine needs to deliver (availability, throughput, quality, MTBF, MTTR,…), designs machines meeting such KPIs and which are easy to operate and maintain, understands both upstream and downstream constraints and bottle-necks to avoid machine starvation and blocking.
• optimizes designs at the product and customer level, understanding that the ideal implementation requires a balanced approach to schedule, cost, technical risk, etc.
• debugs and resolves problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• understands the fundamental mechanical, electrical and pneumatic constraints • consistently follows engineering best practices and where possible drives their adoption.
he role will understand the details of an Amazon Fulfillment Center design, implementation, modeling, equipment and technology.
This is an individual contributor role, coordinating a x-functional project team and providing technical direction to develop conceptual design, performance specifications and development of scale-up testing activities to operational readiness.
This leader will work in strict collaboration with WW Engineering, EU Engineering, Packaging, Equipment Vendors, Software Developers and Procurement.
The Senior Hardware Development Engineer will drive an invent and simplify strategy, will have high work capacity while being detailed oriented and agile to manage business changes and keep driving the innovations and initiatives.
This individual needs to be comfortable interfacing and driving various functional teams and individuals at all levels of the organization in order to be successful.
ey job responsibilitiesThe successful candidate will work with the Continuous Improvement (CI) TPM's to identify, prioritize and develop HW and SW improvements that will have a large impact on our existing WW fleet of mechatronics and packaging machines.
Tasks include- Performing Root Cause Analysis and FMEA to improve our technologies.- Traveling to Fulfillment Centers (FC's) and Crossdocks (IXD's) buildings to gain critical knowledge from our Operations and Maintenance customers.- Develop HW and SW concepts and prototypes.- Test solutions in collaboration with the lab and testing team.- Validate the solutions with field testing.- Assist in the preparation of business case justifications for the improvements.- Provide technical guidance and leadership as the improvements get rolled out to the network of machines WW.
e are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations.
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