About the job
We are seeking a Sensor System Engineer to join the Machine Vision Systems team at Amazon Robotics. This is a cross-disciplinary Subject Matter Expert (SME) role that bridges the gap between customers, product strategy, and deep technical execution. The ideal candidate thrives at the intersection of systems engineering, product management, and customer engagement, translating real-world needs into actionable sensor solutions for next-generation robotic platforms.
Responsibilities
Customer Engagement & Requirements Gathering: Serve as a primary technical point of contact for internal and external customers. Conduct discovery sessions, gather use-case requirements, and translate customer needs into quantifiable technical specifications and design goals.
Product Definition & Roadmap Support: Partner with product management to define product requirements, prioritize features, and shape the sensor product roadmap based on customer feedback, market trends, and technical feasibility.
System Architecture: Contribute to sensor system architecture selections, ensuring designs meet performance, cost, reliability, and integration requirements across mechanical, electrical, and optical domains.
Technology Benchmarking & Competitive Analysis: Evaluate emerging sensing technologies, benchmark against competitive solutions, and identify opportunities to differentiate. Maintain awareness of industry trends, academic research, and market dynamics in robotics sensing (navigation, perception, manipulation).
Technical Challenge Identification: Proactively identify and communicate technical risks and enablement problems for customer applications. Develop mitigation strategies and trade-off assessments to guide engineering selections.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work across hardware, firmware, optical, mechanical, electrical, test, and manufacturing teams to ensure cohesive system-level solutions. Communicate effectively across disciplines to align stakeholders on requirements and priorities.
Qualifications
Minimum
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related fields
- Experience communicating with customers, technical, regulatory, business teams, and management to collect requirements, describe product features, and technical designs
- Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization
- Experience translating customer needs into innovative and detailed product requirements for customer-facing online and mobile products/services
- 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, sensor development, or related technical roles
- Strong understanding of sensor technologies (imaging, depth sensing, LiDAR, ToF, or similar)
Preferred
- Experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology
- Knowledge of key technology and market trends
- Experience with written and verbal communication and presentation
- Experience working in a fast-paced and highly cross-functional organization
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related fields
- Experience in mobile robotics sensing applications (navigation, manipulation, perception)
- Experience with optoelectronic packaging, sensor architecture, or system-level integration