Senior Robotics Perception & SLAM Software Engineer

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for Robotics Perception to lead the perception, SLAM, navigation, and spatial memory software on on-robot systems. You will partner with applied scientists to turn research into fast, reliable production components on embedded GPUs.

You will set architectures, interfaces, and engineering standards, determine what runs on the robot vs. cloud, and guide designs across science and engineering teams while building evaluation frameworks to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for perception, SLAM, navigation, and spatial memory software.
• Own how well the robot perceives and navigates in real facilities and drive fixes when it falls short.
• Collaborate with applied science leaders to productionize research.
• Define tradeoffs across stack (robot vs cloud) and model sharing of compute.
• Lead designs across teams and build evaluation to show improvements.

Skills

Software development

Mentoring/leadership

CS/EE/ME background

Education

Bachelor's or Master's or 10+ years CS/ME/EE

Tools

ROS 2

Embedded GPUs

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for Robotics Perception to lead the perception, SLAM, navigation, and spatial memory software on on-robot systems. You will partner with applied scientists to turn research into fast, reliable production components on embedded GPUs.

You will set architectures, interfaces, and engineering standards, determine what runs on the robot vs. cloud, and guide designs across science and engineering teams while building evaluation frameworks to