Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team is seeking a Mechatronics or Controls Engineer to design, prototype, and refine high degree-of-freedom systems, ensuring they meet strict performance, safety, and research requirements.
Requirements
- Strong background in actuator and control system design, including characterization and integration
- Proficiency in embedded firmware development for real-time control
- Experience in robotic system calibration and system identification
- Strong grasp of control theory, dynamics, and kinematics of robotic systems
- Experience with sensor integration (encoders, force–torque sensors, tactile, MUs)
- Experience with high-DOF robotic systems
- Experience developing inverse kinematics (IK) solvers, kinematic calibration, and running motion simulations (e.g. MuJoCo, IsaacSim, MATLAB/Simulink)
Responsibilities
- Own motor & actuator selection, characterization, and integration into electromechanical subsystems to meet system-level performance specifications
- Design and tune low-level control systems, including position, velocity, torque, and impedance control loops
- Interface control systems with higher-level AI and motion-planning platforms, ensuring reliable, low-latency communication and robust operation
- Maintain and update motor control board hardware and firmware, including environments for executing control loops, reading encoders, and managing outputs
- Develop and execute SysID routines for electromechanical subsystems; design calibration procedures for sensors, actuators, and kinematic chains to ensure precision and repeatability
- Ensure actuator and control systems meet safety, robustness, and maintainability requirements for advanced robotic system operation
- Work hands-on with mechanical, electrical, and AI teams to rapidly prototype and iterate on hardware solutions
Other
- Master’s or PhD in Controls Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field
- Proven ability to work hands-on in a fast-moving, multidisciplinary team
- Work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff
- Adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions
- Communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service
