Sr SDE - Scanless Tech Scanless Tech

Are you inspired by invention Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture Answer yes to any of these and youll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We are a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply state of the art advances in robotics and software to solve realworld problems that will transform our customers experiences in ways we cant even imagine yet. We invent new improvements every day. We are Amazon Robotics and we will give you the tools and support you need to invent with us in ways that are rewarding fulfilling and fun.

Amazon Robotics seeks a Senior SDE to lead development machine learning and computer vision based software technologies. This role provides ample opportunity to influence innovate and shape the next generation of robotics tech. You will have opportunities to work collaboratively with other software and hardware teams in Amazon Robotics and across Amazon. Joining this team enables you to be on the forefront of new product development and technology that improves our systems and the experience for our customers around the globe.

Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. SDE in the Scanless Technologies organization at Amazon Robotics you will:

Develop computer vision applications that run at the edge and in the cloud. You will leverage state of the art CV techniques at the edge and AWS ML technologies
Partner with other engaged friendly principlesfirst thinking oriented engineers to understand customer use cases and implement core engineering capabilities for Amazons enormous fulfillment network.
Operate across multiple layers of the stack to design and build faulttolerant production software that optimize our fleet of fulfillment infrastructure and robots.
Participate in software architecture and design reviews.
Develop tools to test and analyze complex systems including those deployed in production at customer sites and dig into critical pieces of distributed systems like logging tracing metrics.
Hire and mentor other engineers on the team.

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members including domestic partners. Benefits can vary by location the number of regularly scheduled hours you work length of employment and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular fulltime employees include:

1. Medical Dental and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly wed still love to hear from you! At Amazon we value people with unique backgrounds experiences and skillsets. If youre passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale please apply!

Amazon Robotics is developing state of the art technologies that will forever change the way products and packages are identified all by using Computer Vision Machine Learning. We envision a time when manual item identification (typically barcode scanning) is a vestige of the past. You will be a technical guide for the development of new components and crossfunctional programs requiring the work of multiple engineers and scientists. Partner with Applied Scientists to prototype and develop Machine Learning applications that deliver on this vision.

Come join with us in developing pioneering applications in a highly exciting and innovative environment where your solutions will impact tens of thousands of users for every minute of their working day!

About the team
As a software development engineer (SDE) on the Amazon Robotics Scanless Technologies team you will be a technical guide and contributor to an exciting diverse team that is responsible for developing and deploying fullstack software systems using AWS that are scalable reliable and performant is obsessed over its customers at its core and its solutions impact thousands of users for every minute of their working day! AI (Machine Learning Data Science etc. is at the core of everything this team builds. Our solutions are deployed at the Edge and in the Cloud at scale!


Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
5 years of noninternship 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

5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Selfmotivated and able to solve problems singularly
Strong communication skills ability to work well in a team environment
Strong desire to develop skills in Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Decisive with limited information and able to learn rapidly.

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