Luke A. Kerr

About Luke A. Kerr

I\'m an engineer who\'s built his career in environments where the systems are complex, the stakes are real, and the margin for error is small. At Amazon Robotics, I designed autonomous robotic infrastructure for fulfillment centers operating thousands of drives across million-square-foot facilities with downstream impacts affecting millions of customers. At Lockheed Martin, I owned system safety analysis on fighter aircraft platforms, controlled budgets, and reviewed software against standards where lives are on the line. The thread across everything I\'ve done: I take messy, high-consequence problems, break them into structure, and drive them to outcomes, whether that means a deployable automated floor layout, a risk assessment briefing affecting fighter jets, or a multi-project budget that stays on track and under cost. I think in systems, communicate in plain language, and operate best when the problem is hard and the people around me care about getting it right. Based in Austin, TX. Open to connecting.

Experience

1. Solutions Design Engineer

   Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics

   May 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Owned end-to-end robotic floor design for large-scale automated fulfillment centers running autonomous drives across 1M+ sq. ft. facilities — translating site-specific business goals and operational targets into deployable robotic solutions.Day-to-day responsibilities spanned the full solutions lifecycle: scoping designs to meet throughput and cost objectives, running digital twin simulations and data analysis to validate configurations, and driving data-driven decisions across complex, multi-stakeholder environments.Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams — including Operations, Deployment, Construction, Networking, Software, and Hardware — to align technical designs with business requirements and hold deployment schedules on high-priority sites.

Education

• Texas A&M University

  Bachelor's degree, Aerospace Engineering