Principal Systems Development Engineer, Design Engineering; I​/O

Principal Systems Development Engineer – World Wide Design Engineering (I/O)

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We are seeking a Principal Systems Development Engineer to develop transformative systems that will revolutionize facility design and deployment. Our technology portfolio includes computer vision solutions leveraging vision language models, autonomous robotics (ground and aerial), generative data analytics, and agentic workflow automation systems deployed across our global fulfillment network.

• AI/ML-Powered Design Tools:
  Develop advanced solutions that enable engineers to deliver next-generation facility designs through ‘text-to-geometry’ capabilities and agentic design validation integrated into daily workflows.
• Autonomous Inspection Platforms:
  Build robotic systems that perform detailed quality inspections, verify installation quality, and generate comprehensive digital twins.
• Quality Assurance Suite:
  Create automated design validation, software verification and audit planning tools for field inspection and testing prior to facility launch.

• Launch new facilities with zero surprises and fully empowered operations and maintenance teams.
• Ensure every customer receives their packages on time, every time.

The ideal candidate will drive the development of hardware and software quality solutions for designing, inspecting and qualifying robotic facilities with minimal human intervention.

• Provide strategic technical guidance to senior leadership.
• Contribute to product roadmaps and oversee technical deliverables.
• Mentor engineers and conduct code reviews.
• Maintain our high bar for innovation.

• Multi-disciplinary teams including design engineers, developers and mechanical engineers.
• A network of external innovation partners.
• Stakeholders across product definition, execution and testing.

• Responsive, flexible and committed to continuous learning.
• Passionate about physical AI solutions where cloud technology meets real world hardware.
• Comfortable working across the full technology stack—from low-level machine control code to cloud-based solutions enabling seamless machine–world interaction.

• Provide strategic technical guidance on AI/ML systems, autonomous robotics and quality automation solutions.
• Define and communicate system integration and evaluation strategies for physical AI deployments across global fulfillment centers.
• Contribute to product roadmaps and drive cross-functional execution priorities.
• Identify and analyze tradeoffs between design alternatives, including impact on performance, schedule, cost, risk, complexity and scalability.
• Design and develop test systems for validating AI-powered design tools, digital twin generation and agentic workflow automation.
• Lead code reviews and maintain high standards for technical documentation.
• Partner with design engineers to ensure testability and quality throughout development.
• Design and execute test strategies for facility design, inspection and qualification tools.
• Write status and build reports for cross-functional leadership review.
• Mentor engineers and share best practices across multi-disciplinary teams.

You will be joining the Engineering Quality Management team within World Wide Design Engineering, where you’ll drive impactful initiatives, solve challenging problems and develop AI-powered solutions that change how facilities are designed, built, tested and optimized for operations. We’re building more than just warehouses and IT services – we’re designing physical systems that automate design, test and qualification of our fulfillment network.

The team combines expertise in distributed systems, industrial automation, cloud architecture and machine learning to deliver solutions that impact millions of customers daily.

• Knowledge of infrastructure automation delivered through the software development lifecycle in an API-enabled environment, including agile development, software architecture/patterns and modern cloud services.
• Knowledge of the tools of…