Senior SDE: Cloud Robotics Simulation Platform

Amazon; United States; On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Accommodations for disability

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and operate a high-performance robotics simulation platform at scale. You will design cloud-native infrastructure on AWS to support distributed simulations, learning pipelines, and automated validation.

You will lead CI/CD for C++ and Python codebases, develop tooling for simulation assets, and collaborate with robotics and research teams to productionize capabilities into reliable software systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems
• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/Engineering with programming experience in Python/Java/C++

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the core simulation platform infrastructure supporting large-scale robotics development and learning workloads
• Architect and scale cloud-native systems in AWS, including distributed job orchestration, resource management, and cost-efficient compute utilization
• Own CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and automated testing infrastructure for complex C++ and Python codebases
• Develop and maintain tooling to manage simulation environments, assets, and versioned artifacts across teams
• Improve performance, reliability, and reproducibility through observability, profiling, and automated regression systems
• Establish and enforce software engineering best practices, including modular architecture, code quality standards, and long-term maintainability
• Partner with robotics and research teams to productionize advanced capabilities into robust, scalable software systems
• Enable large-scale validation, benchmarking, and certification workflows through automated evaluation infrastructure

Skills

C++

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/SE

Master's degree (CS/CE/EE)

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and operate a high-performance robotics simulation platform at scale. You will design cloud-native infrastructure on AWS to support distributed simulations, learning pipelines, and automated validation.

You will lead CI/CD for C++ and Python codebases, develop tooling for simulation assets, and collaborate with robotics and research teams to productionize capabilities into reliable software systems.