Staff Robotics Software Engineer — Edge & Real-Time AI

Amazon; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Frontier AI & Robotics, part of Amazon, is seeking a senior software engineer to build a robotics software stack that spans sensor bring-up to edge compute. You will work across hardware, ML research, controls, and operations, shipping scalable solutions for real‑world robotics problems.

The role demands strong C++/Python, leadership, and experience integrating with hardware teams. You’ll contribute to low‑level driver work, multi‑process Python lifecycles, and ROS 2 middleware in production

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with C++/Python interop or other hybrid-language stacks.
• Experience as a tech lead, mentor, or technical owner of an engineering team or significant component.
• Experience working closely with hardware, ML, or controls teams as the software counterpart.

Responsibilities

• Bring up and integrate sensors, actuators, and edge compute across diverse robotics hardware platforms.
• Build and improve the multi-process Python and ROS 2 runtime: process management, IPC, observability, lifecycle.
• Diagnose and fix bottlenecks across the stack: middleware performance (DDS, ROS 2), perception pipeline latency, edge inference throughput, system-level resource contention.
• Generalize one-off solutions into reusable infrastructure (camera stacks, telemetry pipelines, edge deployment tooling) that scales across hardware platforms and use cases.
• Port code onto the constrained edge-compute platforms our robots run. Make it work, then make it work well.
• Identify gaps in the team’s velocity, whether that’s a missing piece of infrastructure or a fragile sensor that nobody has time to fix, and close them.
• Make proper tradeoffs between prototyping and production software.

Skills

Software development

C++/Python interop

Distributed systems

Leadership / technical owner

Hardware/ML collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

ROS 2

I2C/SPI/USB/MIPI/CAN protocols

Job description

Frontier AI & Robotics, part of Amazon, is seeking a senior software engineer to build a robotics software stack that spans sensor bring-up to edge compute. You will work across hardware, ML research, controls, and operations, shipping scalable solutions for real‑world robotics problems.

The role demands strong C++/Python, leadership, and experience integrating with hardware teams. You’ll contribute to low‑level driver work, multi‑process Python lifecycles, and ROS 2 middleware in production