Mechnical Engineer, Fauna

As a Mechnical Engineer, you will own the detailed design and development of mechanical components and assemblies from concept through production release. This is a highly CAD-intensive role. You'll spend your time designing parts, building and maintaining assemblies, and working through the full DFM and tooling process with our overseas manufacturing partners. You'll work closely with our industrial design, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing teams to deliver parts that are beautiful, functional, and manufacturable.

• Key job responsibilities
• Develop prototypes and refine designs for robotic mechanisms and subsystems
• Create and optimize precision mechanical systems, including linkages, joints, and actuation systems
• Collaborate with electrical and software engineers to integrate sensors, actuators, and control systems
• Partner with in-house designers to meet product aesthetic and cosmetic requirements
• Design parts for machining, casting, 3D printing, and other manufacturing processes
• Work with suppliers and manufacturers worldwide to source components, manage production timelines, and maintain quality standards
• Perform life-cycle testing, quality assurance, and failure analysis to validate designs and ensure product reliability
• Oversee the transition of designs from prototype to mass production, including working directly with manufacturing partners globally
• Maintain detailed design documentation, including CAD models, drawings, and test data

About the team
Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.
We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.
Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful.
At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.
If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
• Ability to build complex, well-structured parametric models and assemblies efficiently and cleanly
• Demonstrated experience designing injection molded parts for production, including DFM analysis and GD&T
• Direct experience managing tooling development with overseas vendors including tool design reviews, sampling, and FAI
• Strong 2D drawing skills with working knowledge of GD&T (ASME Y14.5)

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Onshape; experience managing assemblies and drawings in a cloud-based PDM environment
• Familiarity with additional manufacturing processes — die casting, CNC machining, sheet metal, urethane casting — and how they interact with injection molded components
• Exposure to structural simulation or FEA
• Experience working across EVT/DVT/PVT build cycles in a product development context

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, NY, New York - 129,100.00 - 185,000.00 USD annually