Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Perception & Localization

Amazon; Town of Westboro (WI); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Velocity software team, focusing on perception and localization for autonomous systems. You will work with an exceptional group of engineers building platform and architecture for perception, motion planning, and control, collaborating across teams to enhance robotic capabilities.

The role emphasizes expertise in C++, Python, ROS, and AWS, with responsibilities spanning sensor integration, sensor fusion, ML infrastructure, and performance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience with perception, localization, sensor-fusion, computer-vision, or machine-learning for robotics.

Responsibilities

• Evaluating and integrating new sensors into the autonomy software stack.
• Developing sensor fusion techniques for obstacle detection and localization.
• Developing machine-learning capabilities and infrastructure for robotic perception and localization.
• Optimizing runtime performance of autonomy algorithms by exploiting hardware acceleration.
• Building frameworks for large-scale replay and analysis of 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

Sensor fusion

Localization

Mentor / tech lead

Autonomy software

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

ROS

AWS

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Velocity software team, focusing on perception and localization for autonomous systems. You will work with an exceptional group of engineers building platform and architecture for perception, motion planning, and control, collaborating across teams to enhance robotic capabilities.

The role emphasizes expertise in C++, Python, ROS, and AWS, with responsibilities spanning sensor integration, sensor fusion, ML infrastructure, and performance