Senior Embedded Rust Engineer for Safety-Critical Robotics

Amazon; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Robotics seeks a Senior Embedded Software Engineer focused on safety-critical firmware. You will lead Rust-based subsystems on heterogeneous multi-core MCUs/CPUs/GPUs, shaping safety-perception pipelines and real-time sensor processing across teams.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with hardware, safety, and navigation teams, and own end-to-end design and certification artifacts to meet IEC 61508 requirements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience leading design or architecture of large systems.
• Strong embedded Rust or willingness to work in Rust on embedded platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture of safety-rated firmware subsystems in Rust on multi-core platforms.
• Set technical direction for sensor processing pipelines and system interfaces.
• Mentor engineers and drive end-to-end debugging and safety analyses.

Skills

Rust proficiency

Embedded Rust

C/C++ embedded

RTOS/Linux boundary

Sensor data processing

Systems architecture

Mentoring / tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

V4L2

I2C

SPI

DMA

gRPC/Protobuf

ROS/ROS2

Job description

Amazon Robotics seeks a Senior Embedded Software Engineer focused on safety-critical firmware. You will lead Rust-based subsystems on heterogeneous multi-core MCUs/CPUs/GPUs, shaping safety-perception pipelines and real-time sensor processing across teams.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with hardware, safety, and navigation teams, and own end-to-end design and certification artifacts to meet IEC 61508 requirements.