Amazon Innovation Engineer WW Engineering AMZL 

United States, New York, New York 

553119234

Key job responsibilities
Core Responsibilities:- Drive customer requirements for AR system implementation
- Identify automation opportunities based on labor, cost, safety, and performance metrics
- Lead AR and MHE automation pilots, measuring success against productivity, quality, and safety targets- Support commissioning and maintenance of new installations- Create technical documentation including flow diagrams and equipment layouts
Project Leadership:- Define pilot criteria and success metrics
- Evaluate and select critical sites for automation deployment
- Document lessons learned for future design iterationsA day in the life
As an Innovation Engineer for AMZL, you'll develop and implement state-of-the-art automation and robotics technologies. Working between field operations and vendor partnerships, you'll identify operational challenges faced by associates and transform them into technological solutions. Based in our Innovation Center, you'll build and validate prototypes through rapid design iterations, using simulation and data analysis to demonstrate real-world benefits. Your role combines hands-on technical development with strategic business planning, requiring you to build compelling business cases for new technology pilots. You'll need to understand deeply how technology impacts both AMZL processes and associate workflows, bringing an entrepreneurial mindset to improve operational efficiency and worker experience.

- 4+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience with prototyping and implementation
- BS in Mechanical Engineering
- SolidWorks or similar CAD experience and understanding of best practices for part design, advanced assemblies, complex configuration management
- Hands on experience crafting proof-of-concept models and prototypes
- Thorough understanding and use of principals, theories and concepts in mechanical engineering and ability to apply them to product design
- Organizational skills and the ability to work well with teams
- Experience communicating concepts and writing technical documents
- Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment
- Experience with full lifecycle and proficiency at completing tasks to meet associated milestones
- Experience evaluating design, performance and logistical tradeoffs for hardware systems