Sr Software Development Engineer, Perception, Fauna

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, implement, and scale perception and state estimation software powering our robotics platforms. You will own the full software lifecycle—from architecture to deployment—ensuring real-time performance on embedded hardware.

You will build robust data pipelines for multi-sensor data, collaborate with applied scientists and hardware engineers, and drive operational excellence with testing, monitoring, and on-call support.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement real-time perception and state estimation software.
• Build scalable data pipelines for multi-sensor data.
• Develop deployment infrastructure for embedded hardware and CI/CD pipelines.
• Architect interfaces within the robot autonomy stack.
• Optimize performance under latency, memory, and power constraints.
• Build and maintain testing frameworks and simulation environments.
• Provide on-call support and drive operational excellence.
• Collaborate with scientists to productionize research prototypes.

Skills

Real-time systems

Mentor / tech lead

Architectural design

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and scale the software systems that power perception and state estimation on our intelligent robots. In this role, you will design, implement, and maintain production-quality software that enables robots to understand their position and motion in real time, even in challenging and dynamic environments.

You will own the full software lifecycle—from architecture and design through implementation, testing, and deployment—ensuring that perception systems are reliable, performant, and maintainable at scale. You will build robust infrastructure for sensor data processing, algorithm integration, and embedded deployment pipelines, while collaborating closely with applied scientists and hardware engineers to bring cutting-edge research into production.

This is a deeply hands-on engineering role. You will write high-quality, well-tested code, design scalable systems, and drive operational excellence across the perception software stack. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience building real-time systems, and a passion for robotics.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and implement production software systems for real-time perception and state estimation on robotic platforms like Sprout
• Build scalable data pipelines for processing, calibrating, and managing multi-sensor data (cameras, IMUs, and other sensing modalities)
• Develop and maintain deployment infrastructure for embedded hardware (e.g., ARM, GPU-accelerated edge devices), including CI/CD pipelines, OTA updates, and monitoring
• Architect software interfaces between perception, controls, and navigation subsystems within the robot's autonomy stack
• Optimize system performance under strict latency, memory, and power constraints through profiling, benchmarking, and iterative improvement
• Build and maintain testing frameworks, simulation environments, and evaluation infrastructure for perception systems
• Drive operational excellence including alarming, metrics, runbooks, and on-call support for production robotics systems
• Collaborate with applied scientists to translate research prototypes into production-ready, maintainable code

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually