← All roles

Senior Systems Engineer

Amazon· Amazon Robotics / Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
Apply on company site
Hybrid (USA, MA, N.Reading)$151.2k - $204.6kfull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Interdisciplinary Senior Systems Engineer role focused on leadership for concept development, architecture, and design of robotics systems and industrial equipment, bridging hardware, software, controls, and safety to deliver scalable Amazon solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Define, expand, and explore the design space for complex, multidisciplinary robotics and automation problems
  • Identify and analyze cross-functional tradeoffs between design alternatives including performance, schedule, cost, risk, complexity, and scale
  • Break down and frame problems using con-ops, use cases, structural/functional decompositions, and other system representations
  • Identify design choices to ensure products are safe, reliable, usable, deployable and supportable at Amazon scale
  • Build quantitative models and analyses (Excel, MATLAB, Python, internal tools) for trade studies, requirements refinement, and understanding key system drivers
  • Perform technical risk assessments (e.g., TRL, Gap Analysis, FMEDA, HARA) and devise mitigation plans and test strategies
  • Develop and communicate system integration and evaluation strategies and plans for program learning and risk reduction
  • Drive and prioritize execution of system test campaigns across lab and field tests with cross-functional teams
  • Guide and inform architecture definition through analyses
  • Mentor junior engineers and participate in hiring of new team members

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or above in engineering or equivalent STEM field
  • 7+ years of professional experience
  • Experience eliciting and clarifying business and end user needs and translating them to system concepts, requirements, and designs
  • Experience leading technical collaborations across hardware, software, controls, functional safety, and program management
  • Experience identifying dependencies, tradeoffs, and sensitivities across multi-disciplinary systems

Skills

Required:Systems engineeringCross-functional leadershipRisk assessment and mitigation

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Life insurance and optional supplemental life plans
  • Employee assistance and mental health support
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • RSUs and sign-on payments
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates

liquid-ai-recruiting-target
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Amazon