Senior Software Dev Engineer , Velocity
Amazon · Westboro, MA · Software Development
senior
Software Engineer
ic
· Posted Apr 24, 2026
$168,100 – $227,400
USD per year
About this role
Amazon is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Westboro, MA. The posting calls out experience with Python, AWS, Data Structures, Data Visualization. Compensation is listed at $168,100–$227,400 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Westboro, MA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Apr 24, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersRDPI's Velocity software team develops the autonomy software that powers Velocity. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our perception and localization team. You will be part of an exceptional group of engineers building the platform and architecture for our perception, motion planning and control software. In addition, you will collaborate with engineers cross the team to develop and enhance our robotic capabilities.
Key job responsibilities
Specific areas of focus may include (but are not limited too):
- 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 underlying hardware acceleration capabilities.
- Building frameworks for large-scale replay and analysis of events in 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.
- 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
Key job responsibilities
Specific areas of focus may include (but are not limited too):
- 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 underlying hardware acceleration capabilities.
- Building frameworks for large-scale replay and analysis of events in 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.
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
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