Senior Robotics Software Architect & SDK Lead

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to drive technical strategy and architecture for robotic software modules, enabling robots to perceive, navigate, and interact safely in real-world environments.

You will own end-to-end delivery from design through production deployment, mentor engineers, and lead collaboration across research, ML, hardware, and operations to deliver integrated SDKs and tools that accelerate multi-disciplinary development.

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 (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Track record of delivering developer-facing products with robust SDKs and fault-tolerant distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and design decisions for robotic software systems, including perception, navigation, motor control, reasoning, and human-robot interaction.
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex software systems, from design through production deployment and operational excellence.
• Lead collaboration across research, machine learning, hardware, and operations teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Define technical roadmaps and drive innovation in robotic software development, including production-level SDKs for developer use.
• Design and implement systems and tools that accelerate development velocity for multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

Skills

Software development

Architecture design

Mentoring / tech lead

Engineering leadership

Job description

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to drive technical strategy and architecture for robotic software modules, enabling robots to perceive, navigate, and interact safely in real-world environments.

You will own end-to-end delivery from design through production deployment, mentor engineers, and lead collaboration across research, ML, hardware, and operations to deliver integrated SDKs and tools that accelerate multi-disciplinary development.