Robotics Software Engineer, Amazon
Amazon Robotics R&D
The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Perl)
- Knowledge of computer architecture, operating systems, and parallel computing
- Experience with a Linux development environment, multithreading and concurrency
Desirable
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Background in Computer Vision, Machine Learning or Robotics
- Experience with a robotics software framework, such as ROS or an equivalent toolkit
- Experience with designing, building, deploying and maintaining scalable and highly available systems
- Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, from front-end user interfaces to back-end systems
What the job involves
- Amazon Robotics is seeking broad, curious engineers to join our team
- We holistically design, build, and deliver end-to-end robotic systems
- Our team is also responsible for core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone of our robotic applications, enabling roboticists, machine learning scientists, software engineers, and hardware engineers to collaborate and deploy systems in the field
- You'll be a key member of a software engineering team that designs, prototypes, integrates, tests and launches robotic applications throughout Amazon's fulfillment centers
- You will partner with applied scientists and project managers
- Your responsibilities will include collaborating with other teams across the globe
- Participate in all phases of new developments including concept, design, architecting, prototyping, and production
- Implementation, performance optimization and maintenance of software
- Collaborate with software, hardware, and operations customers
- Contribute to software design reviews and team best practicesThe Vulcan Pick team is focusing the technology to partially automate the picking activities in existing Amazon Fulfillment Centers
- The interdisciplinary team is composed of members from wide range of disciplines including software development engineers, hardware/mechanical/electrical engineers, applied scientists and system engineers
- Formed in early 2022, the team has deployed multiple systems to Amazon warehouses and performed more than ~100,000 picks to date
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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