Real-Time Embedded Robotics Engineer

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Maternity and Parental Leave Options

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k) Plan

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking an experienced Embedded Software Development Engineer to join our robotics team focused on workcell automation. You will design, develop, and deploy real-time control systems across embedded platforms, collaborating with hardware teams and other software groups to ensure reliable, high-performance automation in production environments.

The role emphasizes real-time constraints, distributed software architecture, and mentoring on embedded systems practices.

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
• 2+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 4+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 2+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 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
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

Responsibilities

• Design and implement real-time embedded control software for robotic workcells, including motion controllers, trajectory planners, and sensor integration modules that enable precise manipulation and coordination of robotic systems.
• Develop software architectures that balance real-time performance constraints with maintainability and extensibility, ensuring control systems can reliably execute complex automation sequences with microsecond-level timing precision.
• Own the development of embedded software components within the Workcell Controls Architecture, working closely with other teams to implement primitives and coordinate multi-robot operations.
• Partner with hardware teams to define control interfaces, implement device driver, and optimize software performance for industrial automation embedded platforms, and real-time operating systems.
• Lead technical design reviews and contribute to architecture decisions that impact the scalability, reliability, and performance of our control systems.
• Mentor team members on embedded systems best practices, real-time programming techniques, and controls engineering principles.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems and drive root cause analysis for control system issues.

Skills

Software development

Embedded systems

OO design

Real-time control

C/C++

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

RTOS

Device drivers

Multithreading

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking an experienced Embedded Software Development Engineer to join our robotics team focused on workcell automation. You will design, develop, and deploy real-time control systems across embedded platforms, collaborating with hardware teams and other software groups to ensure reliable, high-performance automation in production environments.

The role emphasizes real-time constraints, distributed software architecture, and mentoring on embedded systems practices.