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System Development Engineer II, Manipulation Robotics

Amazon· Amazon Robotics
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Hybrid (North Reading, MA)$129.2k - $174.8kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Hands-on lab and software-focused Systems Development Engineer role within the Manipulation Robotics team, building test infrastructure, running lab experiments, and driving the test and learning loop for robotic manipulation systems in Amazon's fulfillment network.

Responsibilities

  • Build the laboratory and test infrastructure that lets the team put new grasping ideas in front of real items quickly, adapting it as the design evolves and keeping it available, maintainable, and documented so engineers and scientists can run evaluations independently.
  • Bring up robot arms and workcells in the lab, including motion, safety, and integration with the test harness.
  • Partner with mechanical, electrical, controls, and science engineers to answer open design questions through testing, so tradeoffs across performance, cost, complexity, and reliability get settled with data.
  • Establish the characterization procedures and infrastructure that inform finger, gripper, arm, and workcell decisions, and produce the data simulation is calibrated against.
  • Instrument lab setups broadly from the start, anticipating what data will be needed to answer future questions, compare architectures, and inform which sensing the production design carries.
  • Own the software that makes testing possible, including hardware integration, data acquisition, test automation, and analysis tooling.
  • Write and adapt bench-level controls firmware, purpose-built to get a mechanism moving and instrumented quickly so an idea can be judged while it is still cheap to change.
  • Automate item presentation to support volume and repeatability testing across a variety of workflows and robot embodiments.
  • Diagnose problems across hardware, software, and the operating environment when a test result and reality disagree, and eliminate the contributing cause with a permanent fix.

Qualifications

  • Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, 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 integrating sensors and actuators.
  • Experience writing and maintaining software for hardware integration, test automation, data acquisition, or analysis, in Python, C/C++, or a related language.
  • Working knowledge of networking fundamentals and Linux systems.
  • Experience adapting existing hardware or open-source software to stand in for a component that was not yet available.
  • Experience building data pipelines that turn test output into usable data.
  • Experience debugging failures that span hardware, firmware, and software.

Skills

Required:Systems engineering fundamentalsLab infrastructure designProgramming for hardwareNetworkingLinux
Nice to have:Embedded/controls firmware

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
  • Maternity and Parental Leave Options
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • 401(k) Plan
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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