Senior Robotics Perception & Localization Engineer

Amazon Inc.; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. Velocity software team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the perception and localization group. You will help build the platform for perception, motion planning, and control, collaborating across teams to enhance robotic capabilities.

Responsibilities include integrating sensors, crafting sensor fusion, ML infrastructure, optimizing algorithms on embedded hardware, and developing visualization tools.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming in at least one language (C++, Python, etc.).
• 5+ years leading design or architecture of systems with reliability and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and integrate sensors into the autonomy software stack.
• Develop sensor fusion techniques for obstacle detection and localization.
• Develop ML capabilities and infrastructure for perception and localization.
• Optimize runtime performance of autonomy algorithms with hardware acceleration.
• Build frameworks for replay and analysis of pre-recorded sensor data.
• Monitor and manage resource utilization on embedded compute platform.
• Create visualization tools for analyzing robot behavior.

Skills

C++

Python

Software architecture

Mentorship / Tech lead

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

ROS

AWS

Job description

Amazon Inc. Velocity software team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the perception and localization group. You will help build the platform for perception, motion planning, and control, collaborating across teams to enhance robotic capabilities.

Responsibilities include integrating sensors, crafting sensor fusion, ML infrastructure, optimizing algorithms on embedded hardware, and developing visualization tools.