Advanced Robotics Controls Engineer, Frontier AI & Robotics
Amazon
Description
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Mechatronics or Controls Engineer with deep expertise in actuation systems, low-level motor control, sensor integration and system characterization to help design, prototype, and refine high degree-of-freedom systems. You will be a core contributor in the hardware–software integration loop, ensuring that our systems meet strict performance, safety, and research requirements. This role demands a blend of rigorous engineering skill, hands-on prototyping ability, and close collaboration with AI researchers and software engineers.
Key job responsibilities
* Own motor & actuator 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. Build a model/digital twin with fine granularity of actuators undergoing SysID
* 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
About the team
Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) is the team at Amazon building the next generation of embodied intelligence. FAR drives the development and implementation of advanced AI models within Amazon’s operations that enable robots to see, reason, and act on the world around them, supporting a number of different warehouse automation tasks.