Senior Robotics Software Engineer — Autonomy & Perception

Amazon; Denver, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Paid Time Off

401(k) Plan

Job summary

Amazon Robotics, Autonomous Mobility in Denver seeks a Senior Software Developer to advance autonomy software for a fleet of robots. You will evaluate sensors, build sensor fusion, and develop SLAM, ML methods, and visualization tools to analyze robot behavior.

The role emphasizes performance on embedded hardware, scalable data replay, and monitoring resource use, with collaboration across a multidisciplinary team.

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.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.

Responsibilities

• Evaluating and integrating new sensors into the autonomy software stack.
• Developing sensor fusion techniques for obstacle detection and localization.
• Developing software for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) shared across a robot fleet.
• Developing machine-learning capabilities and infrastructure for robotic perception and localization.
• Optimizing runtime performance of autonomy algorithms by exploiting underlying hardware acceleration capabilities.
• Building frameworks for large-scale replay and analysis of events in pre-recorded sensor data.
• Building frameworks to monitor and manage resource utilization on embedded compute platform.
• Building visualization tools for analyzing and debugging robot behavior.

Skills

C++

Python

ROS

CUDA

AWS

Software design

Mentoring

SLAM

Machine learning

Sensor fusion

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

none

Job description

Amazon Robotics, Autonomous Mobility in Denver seeks a Senior Software Developer to advance autonomy software for a fleet of robots. You will evaluate sensors, build sensor fusion, and develop SLAM, ML methods, and visualization tools to analyze robot behavior.

The role emphasizes performance on embedded hardware, scalable data replay, and monitoring resource use, with collaboration across a multidisciplinary team.