Software Development Engineer Frontier AI Robotics

Join the next revolution in robotics at Amazons Frontier AI & Robotics team where youll contribute to breakthrough foundation models run at production scale. As a Software Development Engineer embedded in our science team youll be instrumental in transforming novel research into highperformance production systems. Youll collaborate directly with scientists to optimize largescale transformer architectures for robotics applications leveraging your expertise in CUDA and TensorRT to achieve unprecedented inference efficiency at Amazon scale.

In this role youll balance deep technical optimization work with strategic input on model architecture decisions ensuring our innovative robotics models are designed with performance in mind from the ground up. Youll leverage NVIDIAs acceleration stack and other compilation techniques to tackle ambitious performance targets working at the intersection of large language models and realworld robotics applications.


Key job responsibilities
Drive inference optimization strategies for largescale foundation models using TensorRT CUDA and other NVIDIA tools
Collaborate closely with scientists to influence model architectures for optimal hardware utilization
Design and implement efficient compilation pipelines for complex transformer architectures
Develop comprehensive benchmarking frameworks to measure and optimize model performance
Build robust monitoring solutions to ensure reliable model serving at scale
Explore and evaluate emerging optimization techniques including ONNX Runtime and other ML compilers
Maintain high engineering standards through proper testing documentation and code review practices

A day in the life
Optimize transformer blocks using custom CUDA kernels and TensorRT optimization techniques
Partner with scientists to analyze model architectures and propose efficiency improvements
Implement and benchmark various optimization strategies for largescale models
Debug performance bottlenecks using NVIDIA profiling tools
Participate in technical discussions about new model architectures with the science team
Design and maintain performance monitoring systems for production deployment
Prototype new acceleration approaches using emerging compilation frameworks



About the team
At Frontier AI & Robotics were not just advancing robotics were reimagining it from the ground up. Our team is building the future of intelligent robotics through frontier foundation models and endtoend learned systems. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics from developing sophisticated perception systems to creating adaptive manipulation strategies that work in complex realworld scenarios.

What sets us apart is our unique combination of ambitious research vision and practical impact. We leverage Amazons massive computational infrastructure and rich realworld datasets to train and deploy stateoftheart foundation models. Our work spans the full spectrum of robotics intelligence from multimodal perception using images videos and sensor data to sophisticated manipulation strategies that can handle diverse realworld scenarios. Were building systems that dont just work in the lab but scale to meet the demands of Amazons global operations.

Join us if youre excited about pushing the boundaries of whats possible in robotics working with worldclass researchers and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.


3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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