Software Development Manager Amazon Robotics

Are you excited about building fully autonomous robots that can work and learn in complex environments The Amazon Robotics is creating new products and technologies that make this possible at Amazon scale.

The Robotic Manipulation organization is looking for a software development manager who can continue to advance the stateofthe art in our domain. Your team will be responsible for doing the basic research to unlock new abilities bringing those advancements to production optimizing them for speed and stability and building the supporting web services. Our work spans realtime software machine learning engineering big data simulation and more.

We are a team that launched the first largescale Robotic Manipulation capability in 2020 (Robin). The solution has now scaled to a fleet of thousands of robots and has shipped billions of packages. No comparable solutions exist in the world. We have followed it up with newer robots (Cardinal and Sparrow). Its time to scale up to many more types of work types of robot and even larger fleets of robots to continue to scale our supply chain.

We have come a long way in demonstrating the viability of Robotics at scale but we are still very early in the journey of transforming Amazon Fulfillment and the world. If you are passionate about shaping the future then this is the right opportunity for you.

Key job responsibilities
Prioritize being a great people manager. Building motivating collaborating rewarding and coaching a diverse team of engineers and scientists is the most important part of this role. You will recruit and retain top talent and excel in daytoday people and performance management tasks.

Initially manage and support engineers that will be modifying existing services then move on to developing system that drive our robotic workcells. Lead your team to make changes to existing systems to allow the integration of our robotic workcells into existing infrastructure. Once these services have the features needed the team will move on to developing services that will drive our workcells.

Keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions. Lead your team to evolve our service architecture with quality robustness and Amazon sized scale as top priorities. You will regularly take part in deepdive troubleshooting exercises and drive technical postmortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues.

Set a vision for your team and create product roadmaps. Help your team sort out technical and product requirements and priorities. Use project management skills to deliver product roadmap items and other crossteam projects.


A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members including domestic partners and their children. 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!


About the team
Amazon robotics manipulation org wiki 3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers
Experience with computer vision
Experience with robotic manipulation
Experience with large fleets 100 of robots or complex mechatronics
Experience with supply chains and warehouse operations

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.