Amazon Robotics - Reliability Engineer Co-op - Spring 2025
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Are you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to these questions and you'll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We are a smart team of doers who work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers experiences in ways we can't even image yet. We invent new improvements every day.
Amazon Robotics empowers a smarter, faster, more consistent customer experience through automation. Amazon Robotics automates fulfilment center operations using various methods of robotic technology including autonomous mobile robots, sophisticated control software, language perception, power management, computer vision, depth sensing, machine learning, object recognition, and semantic understanding of commands. Amazon Robotics has a dedicated focus on research and development to continuously explore new opportunities to extend its product lines into new areas.
Amazon Robotics is seeking a talented and motivated Mechanical Engineering student to join our Hardware Development Engineering team for a Co-op assignment. The candidate will have the opportunity work with senior engineering staff on existing and new and existing tools, mechanisms, modules and systems. The ideal candidate has strong mechanical aptitude, enjoys problem solving and can potentially handle multiple parallel tasks. This position reports to a Hardware Development Engineer on the Amazon Robotics team.
This role is a 6 month co-op to join AR full time (40 hours/week) from January to June 2025. Amazon Robotics co-op opportunities will be based in the Greater Boston Area, in our two state-of-the-art facilities in Westborough and North Reading, MA. Both campuses provide a unique opportunity for interns to have direct access to robotics testing labs and manufacturing facilities.
Co-op Responsibilities:
-Supporting field failure investigations through the CAPA process, identifying and implementing corrective and preventive actions
-Supporting the standard work of the Quality, Reliability and Failure analysis team
-Statistical analysis of field performance data and KPIs
-Hardware root cause analysis in the lab
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will support the quality and reliability of Amazon Robotics products deployed across Amazon’s global operations. Partnering with development teams to drive lessons learned into new product designs, you will conduct analysis of field failures to identify product risks. You will collaborate with internal teams and customers to prioritize opportunities for product improvement and drive corrective and preventative actions.
A day in the life
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!
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Must be currently enrolled in and pursuing a Bachelor's (or higher) in an engineering discipline such as Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or similar
- Strong problem-solving and debugging experience related to hardware, software, subsystems, and firmware
- Experience in testing electronics and/or electro-mechanical products in a lab setting
- Proficiency with Minitab, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
- Must have at least one semester/term/quarter of school left to complete after the end of the co-op
- Must be eligible and available for a full-time (40h / week) 6-month co-op between January - June 2025
- Graduation is December 2025 or later
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with quality tools and concepts including 8D, SPC, MSA, Six Sigma, FMEA
- Previous undergraduate or graduate level course work in Quality/Reliability engineering and statistics
- Working understanding of bench top instruments including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, multi-meters, etc. and familiarity with schematics
- Proficiency with PTC Windchill Quality solutions, Reliasoft Synthesis platform tools, SQL, AutoCAD, Agile PLM, MS Project, Visio, Tableau
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