Senior Robotics SDE — Motion Behaviors & Production ML

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

Job summary

Amazon Robotics inSeattle, WA seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Vulcan program on the Motion Behaviors team. You will build infrastructure for motion behavior execution, deploy reliable robotic software, and collaborate with scientists to translate algorithms into production-ready capabilities.

You will lead design and system-level thinking across planning, control, perception, and ML systems, mentoring teammates and advancing production readiness at scale in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and build software infrastructure for motion behavior execution.
• Improve the maintainability and extensibility of the behavior stack to allow for faster development and testing.
• Build observability and debugging tools for production robot behaviors, including structured traces, failure signatures, and behavior-level metrics.
• Develop replay, regression, and evaluation infrastructure for comparing behavior versions and validating changes before production rollout.
• Define and own the safe deployment strategy for behavior changes, including versioning, feature flags, A/B testing, and automated experiment reporting.
• Build the runtime integration layer for learned behavior components, including policy wrappers, inference monitoring, safety envelopes, and fallback rationale.
• Build supportive ML training and deployment pipelines that scale as the team expands its learned behavior development.
• Set software engineering standards for the team — establishing best practices and mentoring team on testing, code quality, system reliability, and production readiness.
• Collaborate closely with applied scientists and engineers to turn algorithms and prototypes into reliable, production-ready robotic behavior capabilities.

Skills

C++

Python

Robotics

Real-time systems

Software architecture

Mentoring / tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Observability tooling

ML training pipelines

Job description

Amazon Robotics inSeattle, WA seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Vulcan program on the Motion Behaviors team. You will build infrastructure for motion behavior execution, deploy reliable robotic software, and collaborate with scientists to translate algorithms into production-ready capabilities.

You will lead design and system-level thinking across planning, control, perception, and ML systems, mentoring teammates and advancing production readiness at scale in a fast-paced