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Join Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team and take ownership of the electronics that make our robots move. As a Sr./Staff Electronics Engineer, Actuators & Drives, you will conceptualize, design, and test the motor drive electronics that power our in-house robotic actuators—from the gate drivers and power stages that command motor current to the sensing circuits and communication interfaces that give our robots proprioceptive awareness. Your printed circuit board (PCB) designs will live inside each of our next-generation robotic systems, directly enabling the embodied intelligence that is central to FAR's mission.
Key job responsibilities
- Conceptualize, design, and validate motor drive electronics for in-house robotic actuators, including inverter power stages, gate driver circuits, current and position sensing, and power management subsystems from concept through prototype and production
- Lead PCB-level design of compact, high-power-density motor drive boards, including schematic capture, component selection, and collaboration with PCB layout engineers to achieve signal integrity, thermal, and EMC requirements in constrained actuator form factors
- Characterize and optimize inverter switching performance, efficiency, and thermal behavior across the full operating envelope of FAR's actuator variants, using bench measurements and simulation to guide design decisions
- Define and implement current sensing architectures (shunt-based, Hall-effect, or integrated IC-based) and position/velocity sensing interfaces (encoder, resolver, Hall sensor) to support high-bandwidth FOC firmware on microcontrollers and DSPs
- Partner with firmware engineers to define hardware-software interfaces for motor drive control loops, fault detection logic, and communication protocols (CAN, EtherCAT, SPI), ensuring electronics designs support the real-time control requirements of robotic actuation
- Collaborate with motor design and mechanical engineers to specify the electrical characteristics of custom BLDC and PMSM motors, align inverter design to motor parameters, and validate the integrated actuator electro-mechanical system
- Lead hardware bring-up, functional testing, and failure analysis for new actuator electronics prototypes, developing test plans and characterization setups that systematically validate design performance and identify failure modes
- Define electronics design standards, review processes, and design-for-manufacturability (DFM) guidelines for FAR's actuator drive portfolio, and mentor junior engineers in motor drive electronics design best practices
A day in the life
Your day centers on the full electronics development cycle for our custom actuator drive systems. You might start by reviewing simulation results for a new inverter topology, then transition to the lab to characterize switching losses and thermal performance on a prototype motor drive board. Later in the day, you could be collaborating with motor design engineers on back-EMF waveform analysis, refining gate drive timing to optimize inverter efficiency, or working with firmware engineers to define current sensing interfaces and hardware abstraction layers.
Across the week, you'll be involved in schematic capture and PCB layout reviews with your design team, participating in design review gates, and iterating on hardware based on test findings. You'll navigate the challenge of fitting high-performance drive electronics into compact, thermally constrained actuator packages—designing for the power density, reliability, and robustness our robots demand. Your work will span from concept and architecture through silicon bring-up, and you'll play a key role in defining the electronics roadmap for FAR's actuator portfolio.
About the team
Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) is the team at Amazon building the next generation of embodied intelligence. FAR drives the development and implementation of advanced AI models within Amazon’s operations that enable robots to see, reason, and act on the world around them, supporting a number of different warehouse automation tasks.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a closely related technical field
- 5+ years of professional experience in power electronics design, with demonstrated ownership of motor drive or power converter hardware from concept through prototype and test
- Expertise in inverter and motor drive circuit design, including MOSFET/IGBT selection, gate driver design, power stage layout, and thermal management for brushless DC or permanent magnet synchronous motor applications
- Experience with current sensing circuit design and PCB-level integration of position/velocity sensing interfaces for motor control applications
- Proficiency with electronics design tools including schematic capture and PCB layout (Altium, KiCad, Cadence, or similar) and SPICE-based circuit simulation
- Hands-on experience with power electronics lab characterization, including use of oscilloscopes, power analyzers, thermal cameras, and network analyzers for drive circuit validation
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience designing motor drive electronics for robotic actuators, collaborative robots, or other high-performance electromechanical systems where power density and dynamic performance are critical
- Familiarity with wide-bandgap semiconductor devices (GaN, SiC) and their application in compact, high-efficiency motor drive designs
- Experience with integrated gate driver ICs, isolated power supply design, and bootstrap circuitry for high-side switch control in half-bridge and full-bridge inverter topologies
- Knowledge of EMC design practices for motor drive electronics and experience achieving CE/FCC compliance in power conversion hardware
- Experience developing test automation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation setups for motor drive electronics qualification
- Background working in fast-paced hardware development environments such as robotics companies, aerospace, or research institutions where rapid iteration and custom hardware are standard
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.
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.
LOCATION
USA, CA, San Francisco
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $157,900.00 - $213,600.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Join Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team and take ownership of the electronics that make our robots move. As a Sr./Staff Electronics Engineer, Actuators & Drives, you will conceptualize, design, and test the motor drive electronics that power our in-house robotic actuators—from the gate drivers and power stages that command motor current to the sensing circuits and communication interfaces that give our robots proprioceptive awareness. Your printed circuit board (PCB) designs will live inside each of our next-generation robotic systems, directly enabling the embodied intelligence that is central to FAR's mission.
Key job responsibilities
- Conceptualize, design, and validate motor drive electronics for in-house robotic actuators, including inverter power stages, gate driver circuits, current and position sensing, and power management subsystems from concept through prototype and production
- Lead PCB-level design of compact, high-power-density motor drive boards, including schematic capture, component selection, and collaboration with PCB layout engineers to achieve signal integrity, thermal, and EMC requirements in constrained actuator form factors
- Characterize and optimize inverter switching performance, efficiency, and thermal behavior across the full operating envelope of FAR's actuator variants, using bench measurements and simulation to guide design decisions
- Define and implement current sensing architectures (shunt-based, Hall-effect, or integrated IC-based) and position/velocity sensing interfaces (encoder, resolver, Hall sensor) to support high-bandwidth FOC firmware on microcontrollers and DSPs
- Partner with firmware engineers to define hardware-software interfaces for motor drive control loops, fault detection logic, and communication protocols (CAN, EtherCAT, SPI), ensuring electronics designs support the real-time control requirements of robotic actuation
- Collaborate with motor design and mechanical engineers to specify the electrical characteristics of custom BLDC and PMSM motors, align inverter design to motor parameters, and validate the integrated actuator electro-mechanical system
- Lead hardware bring-up, functional testing, and failure analysis for new actuator electronics prototypes, developing test plans and characterization setups that systematically validate design performance and identify failure modes
- Define electronics design standards, review processes, and design-for-manufacturability (DFM) guidelines for FAR's actuator drive portfolio, and mentor junior engineers in motor drive electronics design best practices
A day in the life
Your day centers on the full electronics development cycle for our custom actuator drive systems. You might start by reviewing simulation results for a new inverter topology, then transition to the lab to characterize switching losses and thermal performance on a prototype motor drive board. Later in the day, you could be collaborating with motor design engineers on back-EMF waveform analysis, refining gate drive timing to optimize inverter efficiency, or working with firmware engineers to define current sensing interfaces and hardware abstraction layers.
Across the week, you'll be involved in schematic capture and PCB layout reviews with your design team, participating in design review gates, and iterating on hardware based on test findings. You'll navigate the challenge of fitting high-performance drive electronics into compact, thermally constrained actuator packages—designing for the power density, reliability, and robustness our robots demand. Your work will span from concept and architecture through silicon bring-up, and you'll play a key role in defining the electronics roadmap for FAR's actuator portfolio.
About the team
Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) is the team at Amazon building the next generation of embodied intelligence. FAR drives the development and implementation of advanced AI models within Amazon’s operations that enable robots to see, reason, and act on the world around them, supporting a number of different warehouse automation tasks.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a closely related technical field
- 5+ years of professional experience in power electronics design, with demonstrated ownership of motor drive or power converter hardware from concept through prototype and test
- Expertise in inverter and motor drive circuit design, including MOSFET/IGBT selection, gate driver design, power stage layout, and thermal management for brushless DC or permanent magnet synchronous motor applications
- Experience with current sensing circuit design and PCB-level integration of position/velocity sensing interfaces for motor control applications
- Proficiency with electronics design tools including schematic capture and PCB layout (Altium, KiCad, Cadence, or similar) and SPICE-based circuit simulation
- Hands-on experience with power electronics lab characterization, including use of oscilloscopes, power analyzers, thermal cameras, and network analyzers for drive circuit validation
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience designing motor drive electronics for robotic actuators, collaborative robots, or other high-performance electromechanical systems where power density and dynamic performance are critical
- Familiarity with wide-bandgap semiconductor devices (GaN, SiC) and their application in compact, high-efficiency motor drive designs
- Experience with integrated gate driver ICs, isolated power supply design, and bootstrap circuitry for high-side switch control in half-bridge and full-bridge inverter topologies
- Knowledge of EMC design practices for motor drive electronics and experience achieving CE/FCC compliance in power conversion hardware
- Experience developing test automation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation setups for motor drive electronics qualification
- Background working in fast-paced hardware development environments such as robotics companies, aerospace, or research institutions where rapid iteration and custom hardware are standard
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.
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.
LOCATION
USA, CA, San Francisco
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $157,900.00 - $213,600.00 USD annually
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Senior Electronics Engineer
Verify your degree meets specialty occupation
U.S. consular officers assess whether your Australian engineering degree directly relates to the role. A three-year Bachelor of Engineering is generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree, but bring your academic transcript to confirm the field aligns with electronics engineering, not a broader discipline.
Target employers filing LCAs for engineering roles
Search the DOL's Foreign Labor Application Gateway for certified Labor Condition Applications under SOC code 17-2070 (Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Employers with active LCA history have already navigated the DOL filing process and are far less likely to hesitate at sponsorship.
Flag E-3 eligibility early in your job search
Many U.S. hiring managers conflate E-3 with H-1B and assume a lottery is involved. Clarify upfront that the E-3 requires no lottery, has a rapid LCA certification timeline, and places most paperwork obligations on the employer rather than a lengthy government adjudication queue.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the LCA
The LCA must be certified by DOL before your visa application can proceed. Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork so your employer isn't left navigating FLAG portal submissions, prevailing wage determinations, and public access file requirements on their own.
Prepare for specialty occupation scrutiny in defense roles
Electronics engineering roles tied to defense or government contracts can attract additional consular review. Bring a detailed job offer letter specifying required engineering qualifications, the degree field mandated for the position, and project scope. Vague offer letters citing 'preferred' rather than 'required' degree fields have caused E-3 denials.
Confirm your employer's E-Verify enrollment before the offer
Some federal contracting roles require employers to be enrolled in E-Verify as a condition of the contract. Check enrollment status directly with your employer before accepting an offer, since a non-enrolled employer on a covered contract can create I-9 compliance issues after your E-3 is approved.
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Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 visa sponsorship. Every listing is filtered for E-3 eligibility, so you're not sifting through roles that only support H-1B. Senior Electronics Engineer roles in defense, semiconductor, and industrial automation sectors appear regularly and are tagged by sponsorship readiness.
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Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Senior Electronics Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes. Electronics engineering roles requiring a bachelor's degree or higher in electrical or electronics engineering consistently meet the USCIS specialty occupation definition. The degree requirement must be specific to the field, not a general 'any engineering degree' or 'bachelor's preferred' standard. Job descriptions that mandate a directly related degree strengthen your E-3 application significantly.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Senior Electronics Engineer roles?
The E-3 has a 10,500 annual cap that has never been exhausted, meaning no lottery and no random selection. H-1B registrations for the same roles are entered into a lottery with a selection rate well below 50% in recent years. For Australian engineers, the E-3 is a direct path: secure a qualifying offer, complete the LCA, and attend a consulate appointment. No lottery, no multi-year wait.
Can I switch employers on an E-3 while working in the U.S. as a Senior Electronics Engineer?
Yes, but the E-3 isn't portable the way an H-1B can be under certain conditions. Each new employer must file a fresh LCA and obtain DOL certification before you begin work. If your current E-3 was issued for a specific employer, you need the new LCA certified and a new visa stamp or amended status before switching. Gaps between roles without authorization create status risks.
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