Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Robotics
$168.1-227.4k
+ Sign-on payments and restricted stock units
Office located in N.Reading, MA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Posted today
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
$168.1-227.4k
+ Sign-on payments and restricted stock units
Office located in N.Reading, MA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelors or Master's degree and 10+ years in CS, ME, EE or related field experience
- Experience with robotics middleware like ROS, ZCM, or Zenoh
- Experience designing and shipping software for physical robots or other real-time embedded systems, with deep expertise in at least one robotics area such as perception, SLAM, navigation, controls, or autonomy
- Relevant backgrounds include perception, SLAM and navigation, controls, autonomy and task execution, and real-time robotics software, as well as experience deploying learned behavior models such as vision-language-action (VLA) models or VLM- and LLM-based planners on robots
- Master's degree or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
Desirable
- Experience taking robotics algorithms or machine learning models from research prototype to production on real hardware, in close partnership with applied scientists
- Experience with mobile manipulation, locomotion, or dexterous manipulation
- Experience integrating learned policies on a real robot (e.g., imitation or reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, LLM-based task planning)
- Experience with real-time systems, including scheduling, deterministic timing, and sensor synchronization
- Experience deploying and optimizing models and perception pipelines on embedded GPUs (e.g., PyTorch, CUDA, TensorRT, NVIDIA Jetson)
- Experience with test-driven development and automated testing of robotics software, including regression testing of robot behavior with logged data, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing
- Experience using AI coding assistants and agents to speed up development, with sound judgment about reviewing and verifying their output
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with a track record of leading technical work across science and engineering teams
What the job involves
- Amazon is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments
- This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic dexterous manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction
- This role presents an opportunity to shape the future of robotics through innovative applications of the latest software and AI tools for robots
- At Amazon we leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve complex operational challenges at an unprecedented scale. Our fleet of robots operates across hundreds of facilities worldwide, working in sophisticated coordination to fulfill our mission of customer excellence
- We are building the brains of our next-generation robots - a stack that:
- Enables deployment of robots at Amazon scale
- Enables unprecedented generalization across diverse tasks
- Seamlessly integrates with large models and optimal control techniques
- Integrates with human-safe safety solutions
- As a Senior Software Development Engineer on our on-robot software team, you will design and build the software that runs on our robots and turns perception, planning, control, and machine learning models into reliable behavior on real hardware
- You will partner with applied scientists and hardware engineers, lead designs across teams, and help set the technical direction for your area
- Lead the design and delivery of on-robot subsystems, such as perception, SLAM and navigation, dexterous manipulation, low level controls, or task execution, from architecture through deployment on robots, and guide the engineers building it with you
- Prototype quickly with applied scientists, then take the algorithms and learned models that work to production components that meet the robot's real-time, compute, and safety constraints on embedded GPU platforms
- Define the interfaces, timing, and data contracts between perception, planning, control, and the learned policies that run alongside them
- Make your components observable with metrics and telemetry, and lead system-level debugging of failures seen on real robots
- Lead design reviews for the team and partner teams, and write documents for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Mentor engineers on the team in robotics and software engineering, and raise the bar for how we build, test, and operate robot software
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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