Description

Amazon Robotics Delivery and Packaging Innovation (RDPI) Global Engineering Hardware team is seeking a motivated and hands-on Hardware Test Engineer to join our Test Engineering team. This team operates in a multi-disciplinary environment of hardware engineers, controls engineers, and test engineers dedicated to advancing sustainable packaging automation and robotics technologies that fulfill millions of customer orders every day.

The Hardware Test Engineer works closely with cross-functional teams to evaluate, characterize, test, diagnose, and integrate component-level and system-level processes throughout the product development process (PDP) and product lifecycle. You will be responsible for creating and executing test programs, plans, and methods for both subsystem verification tests and complete system verification and validation tests to support new technology and product development programs. This includes developing and executing: design verification test (DVT) plans, factory and site acceptance testing (FAT/SAT), scaled verification tests, test fixtures, and designing experiments (DOE) to support design validation and verification, design down-selection, conducting reliability testing, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

These component and system-level processes integrate sensors, actuators, mechanisms, controls, computer, electrical, and human interactions to deliver systems that meet and exceed customer, safety, regulatory, and business requirements. This is done through the analysis of often ambiguous problems, developing and executing test plans, creation of test rigs and fixtures, automation of data collection and analysis, and presenting results, feedback, and recommendations to cross-functional teams and stakeholders.


Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineers (hardware, software, controls, reliability, operations) and technical program managers to design and execute packaging machinery, automation and robotics projects through the product development process and product lifecycle
- Develop and execute comprehensive test plans for both functional system-level verification and component/subsystem-level verification
- Design and build test rigs and fixtures to support component-level testing, design experiments (DOE), and reliability validation
- Collaborate in design work-streams, including driving modeling, testing, performance and statistical calculations, and 3D/2D design
- Ensure documentation and support is complete, scalable, and data-driven
- Support safety certification of projects/platforms
- Participate in meetings to optimize for customer experience, supply chain, and sustainability
- Design and execute preliminary and exploratory tests that influence the direction of new and upcoming projects
- Automate collection and analysis of test data, presenting results and recommendations to stakeholders

A day in the life
As a Hardware Test Engineer on the RDPI team, you'll spend your days working hands-on in lab environments and at fulfillment centers across North America, validating leading-edge packaging, automation, and robotics technologies. You might start your morning reviewing test results from overnight automated data collection, then collaborate with hardware engineers to refine a test fixture design for a new sensor configuration. In the afternoon, you could be executing a design of experiments study to down-select between material options, or working with controls engineers to diagnose an electro-mechanical issue affecting machine reliability. You’ll travel to Amazon sites across North America to execute tests and collect data, collaborating closely with program and site stakeholders. You'll document your findings in detailed test reports, present recommendations to senior leadership, and help shape the direction of programs that will deploy to hundreds of sites across Amazon's fulfillment network.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of: Boston, MA with up to 75% travel required.

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.

The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
- Maternity and Parental Leave Options
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you!

At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team
Our Hardware Test Engineering team operates in a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment working alongside hardware engineers, software engineers, controls engineers, data scientists, reliability engineers, and operations teams. We focus on rigorous verification and validation of packaging automation systems—from individual components to complete integrated systems—ensuring they meet customer experience, safety, regulatory, and business requirements before deployment.

Our work spans the entire product development lifecycle—from early concept validation and design down-selection through continuous improvement of deployed systems across hundreds of fulfillment centers in North America and Europe.

What sets our team apart is our hands-on approach to solving complex technical challenges. We design and build custom test rigs, develop innovative data collection systems, create standardized testing methodologies, and work directly in lab environments and fulfillment centers to ensure our automation solutions deliver exceptional performance, reliability, and quality at scale. Our contributions directly impact Amazon's sustainability goals, operational efficiency, and the customer experience for millions of packages shipped daily.