Senior Robotics Perception & SLAM Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer for Robotics Perception in Massachusetts. You will lead perception, SLAM, navigation, and spatial memory software for robot systems, partnering with scientists to productionize research and optimize on-robot vs cloud compute across embedded GPUs.

You will set architecture and standards, mentor engineers, and build evaluations to prove improvements in robot performance, collaborating across science and engineering teams at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/ME/EE or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years leading design or architecture of systems.
• Experience mentoring or leading an engineering team.
• Experience designing perception, computer vision, SLAM, or navigation software for robots.
• Strong background in robotics software frameworks and real-world systems.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for perception, SLAM, navigation, and spatial memory.
• Lead engineers who build production software for robots.
• Collaborate with scientists to turn research into production.
• Balance on-robot vs cloud computations and shared models.
• Define interfaces and engineering standards for the team.
• Create evaluation strategies to show robot performance gains.
• Raise engineering bar through design reviews, mentoring and hiring.

Skills

Software development

Programming

System architecture

Mentorship

CS/EE degree

Perception/SLAM

Education

CS/EE degree

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

ROS 2

Nav2

Costmaps

Planning

NVIDIA Jetson

TensorRT

ONNX Runtime

CUDA

Triton Inference Server

Job description

Amazon is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer for Robotics Perception in Massachusetts. You will lead perception, SLAM, navigation, and spatial memory software for robot systems, partnering with scientists to productionize research and optimize on-robot vs cloud compute across embedded GPUs.

You will set architecture and standards, mentor engineers, and build evaluations to prove improvements in robot performance, collaborating across science and engineering teams at scale.