Description
As a Hardware Development Engineer, you will design, build, and validate the electronic systems inside our robot platform, spanning everything from compute to power distribution and peripheral interfaces. You will collaborate closely with firmware engineers, mechanical designers, and manufacturing partners to take board designs from concept through production. The ideal candidate is hands-on, comfortable owning a board end-to-end, has a track record of successful board spins and thrives in a fast-paced environment where hardware decisions directly impact robot capability and safety.
Key job responsibilities
As a Hardware Development Engineer, you will work cross-functionally with electrical, firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers to design and deliver the PCBAs that power our robotic platform. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about hands-on board design and thrive owning hardware from schematic through production.
Lead electrical design for PCBAs across the robotic platform - including schematic capture, component selection, architecture, and design considerations for signal integrity, manufacturability, testability, and cost
Develop and review PCB layouts for multi-layer boards with high-speed digital interfaces (PCIe, USB, MIPI, Ethernet, EtherCAT), ensuring impedance control, power integrity, and EMC compliance
Design power distribution systems including DC-DC converters, LDOs, power sequencing, load switches, and protection circuits for a multi-voltage robotic system
Develop, execute, and automate electrical test plans - including board bring-up, functional verification, and production test strategy (boundary scan, ICT, functional test)
Conduct troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and implement design modifications throughout the product lifecycle - including proto@type debug, failure analysis, and manufacturing yield improvement
Partner with firmware engineers on hardware-software co-development, peripheral interface definition, and board support package bring-up
Manage relationships with external vendors, PCB fabricators, and contract manufacturers including DFM review, stack-up optimization, and production support
Maintain design documentation including schematics, BOMs, design rationale, test reports, and engineering change orders
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
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
3+ years of experience in PCBA-level circuit design for consumer electronics, robotics, industrial, or automotive applications Experience with electrical design verification, electronics test equipment (e.g., oscilloscope, logic analyzer, multimeter, power supply, soldering/rework tools), and board bring-up
Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB layout tools (Altium Designer, Cadence, or similar)
Familiarity with complex embedded electronics architectures and interconnections - including SoCs, MCUs, DRAM, storage, and digital communication interfaces (e.g., USB, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, MIPI)
Experience with power architecture design, power supply design (e.g., LDOs, switching regulators), and power distribution networks
Preferred Qualifications
Proficiency with Altium Designer
Experience with high-speed interface design and verification (PCIe, USB 3.x, MIPI CSI, Ethernet, EtherCAT)
Experience with SoC/SoM-based compute board design (Qualcomm, NVIDIA, or similar application processors)
Experience with signal integrity and power integrity analysis tools (e.g., HSpice, ADS, SIwave, PowerSI)
Experience with motor driver circuits, gate drivers, or power stage design for BLDC actuators
Experience with IMU or inertial sensor electrical design and integration
Familiarity with battery management systems (BMS) and lithium-ion battery integration
Experience working with contract manufacturers on production board builds, DFM optimization, and factory test development
Familiarity with functional safety hardware mechanisms (e.g., watchdogs, voltage monitors, safe-state circuits) or safety standards (IEC 61508, ISO 13849)
Experience with programming languages for test automation (e.g., Python, C/C++, MATLAB)
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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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 .
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