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Job overview
The Hardware Development Engineer designs and models hardware components and test fixtures, and builds, maintains, and troubleshoots test systems supporting hardware production. The role works across hardware, software, and production teams to diagnose failures, identify root causes, and improve test-system reliability and lab efficiency. The team owns lab infrastructure used to validate and ship products.
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Description
Do you enjoy getting hands-on with complex electromechanical systems and keeping critical test infrastructure running at peak performance? As a Hardware Development Engineer at Amazon, you will combine 3D modeling and mechanical design with the build, maintenance, and troubleshooting of test systems that support hardware production. Working across hardware, software, and production teams, you will diagnose failures, identify root causes, and drive improvements that increase test system reliability and lab operational efficiency. This is a role where your design and engineering skills directly enable the teams around you to ship quality products.
Key job responsibilities
Design and model hardware components and test fixtures in CAD to meet defined specifications and manufacturing requirements
Triage and troubleshoot test system and hardware failures to root cause, using data acquisition systems, power supplies, and safety systems
Build, maintain, and repair electromechanical test systems, keeping lab test infrastructure highly available, in partnership with hardware, software, and production teams
Develop test stand procedures and training manuals, and automate test systems to improve reliability, lab safety, and efficiency
A day in the life
You will start your day checking the status of test systems across the lab, prioritizing any failures that need immediate attention. From there, you might open CAD to refine a 3D model for a test fixture, head to the floor to repair an electromechanical assembly. Afternoons could involve reviewing mechanical designs with peers, updating documentation for a modified test stand, or connecting with hardware and software engineers to troubleshoot cross-system issues and plan upcoming infrastructure needs.
About the team
Our team keeps the test infrastructure running that Amazon's hardware teams depend on to validate and ship products. We own the build-out, maintenance, and continuous improvement of lab systems, partnering closely with hardware, software, and production groups. We value hands-on problem-solving, a commitment to safety, and a collaborative approach to keeping our lab environment reliable and efficient. If you are curious and motivated to improve the systems around you, this is a great place to grow your career at Amazon.
Basic Qualifications
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2+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
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Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent
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Knowledge of SolidWorks or similar CAD experience and understanding of best practices for part design, and advanced assemblies
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience in system-level debugging
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Experience with CATIA 3D modeling tool
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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, WA, Seattle - 96,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 7,009 open Mechanical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 14, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$97–160K/yr
- Washington median$117–165K/yr188 salary ranges
- US median$104–160K/yr4,298 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $128K, is 7% below the Washington median midpoint ($139K) — in the middle half of Mechanical Engineer salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 229 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in Washington and 7,009 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Mechanical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 5,926 postings).
- Education
- 4,815 of the 7,009 open Mechanical Engineer jobs (69%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 14, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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