Embedded Sensor & FPGA Edge Compute Engineer

Amazon; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Maternity and parental leave

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Job summary

Amazon Robotics is seeking an Embedded Software Development Engineer to research and develop sensor and compute technology for robotics. You will work across cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver embedded and FPGA software for edge AI applications in the fulfillment network.

The role emphasizes collaboration with hardware, software, test, and operations teams, with opportunities to influence sensor platforms and deployment from prototyping to manufacturing.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• High level of proficiency with C/C++.
• 3+ years experience of direct hands-on full embedded software development cycle, including design, prototype, development, coding standard, code review, source control, test, build, release, manufacturing, and deployment.
• 3+ years experience implementing signal processing algorithms using Verilog and HDL tools.

Responsibilities

• Research emerging sensor technologies and evaluate potential applications in Amazon fulfillment network.
• Partner with hardware, software, test and operations teams as well as third party suppliers to develop next generation 2D & 3D sensors and compute platforms.
• Define system requirements, write specifications, and create test plans.
• Design and develop embedded systems to enable Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Edge Computing.
• Advise internal teams on sensing & compute solution design and integration.
• Support product release to manufacturing and customer deployment.
• Design and develop embedded and FPGA software.

Skills

C/C++ proficiency

Embedded software

Python scripting

HDL/Verilog

Signal processing

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Verilog

HDL tools

Embedded Linux

Job description

Amazon Robotics is seeking an Embedded Software Development Engineer to research and develop sensor and compute technology for robotics. You will work across cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver embedded and FPGA software for edge AI applications in the fulfillment network.

The role emphasizes collaboration with hardware, software, test, and operations teams, with opportunities to influence sensor platforms and deployment from prototyping to manufacturing.