Sr. Robotics Software Engineer, Amazon Robotics

Job description

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Are you inspired by the fusion of software and robotics? Are you an experienced software engineer who dreams of building solutions that combine the latest technology to change how millions of customer orders are fulfilled? Would you enjoy working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, start-up like environment?

Amazon Robotics is seeking broad, curious engineers to join our team. We holistically design, build, and deliver end-to-end robotic systems. Our team is also responsible for core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone of our robotic applications, enabling roboticists, machine learning scientists, software engineers, and hardware engineers to collaborate and deploy systems in the field.



Key job responsibilities
You'll be a key member of a software engineering team that designs, prototypes, integrates, tests and launches robotic applications throughout Amazon's fulfillment centers. You will partner with applied scientists and project managers. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with other teams across the globe.

Work includes:
- Participate in all phases of new developments including concept, design, architecting, prototyping, and production
- Implementation, performance optimization and maintenance of software
- Collaborate with software, hardware, and operations customers
- Contribute to software design reviews and team best practices

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience as a tech lead in the development of a computer vision, machine learning or robotics product
- Experience with a Linux development environment, multithreading and concurrency
- 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
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers, or experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
- Master’s/PhD in Computer Science or related field
- Experience with a robotics software framework, such as ROS or an equivalent toolkit
- Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, from front-end user interfaces to back-end systems

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