Software Engineer II, Autonomy Platform, Data and Tools

Amazon; Reading (MA); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

PTO

401(k) Plan

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Engineer II for the Autonomy Platform, Data and Tools team in Massachusetts to help advance onboard mapping, perception, motion planning, and control software for our autonomous warehouse robot. You will contribute to ML training and deployment pipelines and collaborate with engineers and scientists across the team.

The role emphasizes optimizing runtime performance, sensor integration, Nvidia JetPack platform development, and building tooling for ML workflows and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Knowledge of SDLC, coding standards, code reviews, CI/CD, testing, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Optimizing runtime performance of core algorithms by exploiting hardware acceleration.
• Integrating new sensors and hardware components into the autonomy software stack.
• Developing and customizing JetPack based platform and OS.
• Building data pipelines and tools for ML development flywheel.
• Developing software for remote diagnostics, recovery and control of autonomous robots.
• Building visualization tools for analyzing and debugging robot behavior.
• Designing software interfaces for hardware testing and manufacturing processes.

Skills

CUDA kernels

Embedded development (C/C++)

ML/AI pipelines

AWS cloud development

Software testing

Tools

NVIDIA JetPack

Yocto/Buildroot

Build/release tooling

Git version control

Job description

Software Engineer II, Autonomy Platform, Data and Tools

Job ID: 10470557 | Amazon.com Services LLC

The Amazon Robotics Autonomous Mobility software team develops the autonomy software that powers Proteus, Amazon’s first fully autonomous warehouse robot. We are growing and are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our Platform, Data and Tools team. You will be part of an exceptional group of engineers building the platform and architecture for our onboard mapping, perception, motion planning and control software. In addition, you will collaborate with engineers and scientists across the team to develop and enhance our ML training and deployment pipelines.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Optimizing runtime performance of core algorithms by exploiting underlying hardware acceleration capabilities
• Integrating new sensors and hardware components into the autonomy software stack
• Developing and customizing our Nvidia Jetpack based platform and OS
• Building data pipelines and tools to enable our ML-development flywheel
• Developing software to enable remote diagnostics, recovery and control of autonomous robots
• Building visualization tools for analyzing and debugging robot behavior
• Designing and developing software interfaces to enable hardware testing and manufacturing processes

About the Team

We are a multi-disciplinary organization of collaborative Applied Scientists and Software Engineers with expertise in Computer Vision, SLAM, motion planning, controls, embedded development, and more. Our mission is to deliver autonomous navigation software that utilizes state‑of‑the‑art sensor technologies and algorithms to enable safe and efficient operation of autonomous mobile robots throughout the Amazon fulfillment and transportation network. We take this mission seriously and work hard to achieve it, but we have a lot of fun along the way.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Maternity and Parental Leave Options
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) Plan

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CUDA kernels or ML/low‑level kernels
• Experience in embedded development in C/C++
• Experience working in a cloud based development and production environment such as AWS
• Experience building tools for building, testing, releasing or monitoring
• Experience in Unix, or experience working with device technologies under development, familiarity with flashing firmware, basic device debugging and familiarity with reading/pulling device logs
• Experience building custom distributions using tools such as Yocto or Buildroot

Location: USA, MA, North Reading

Salary: $143,700.00 – $194,400.00 USD annually

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