Software Development Engineer Amazon Robotics Autonomous Mobility

The Amazon Robotics Autonomous Mobility software team develops the software that powers Proteus Amazons first fully autonomous warehouse robot. We are growing and are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our Platform Data and Tools team. You will be part of an exceptional group of engineers building the platform and architecture for our onboard mapping perception motion planning and control software. In addition you will collaborate with engineers and scientists across the team to develop and enhance our ML training and deployment pipelines.


Key job responsibilities
Specific areas of focus may include (but are not limited too):
Optimizing runtime performance of core algorithms by exploiting underlying hardware acceleration capabilities
Integrating new sensors and hardware components into the software stack
Developing and customizing our Nvidia Jetpack based platform and OS.
Building data pipelines and tools to enable our MLdevelopment flywheel
Developing software to enable remote diagnostics recovery and control of autonomous robots
Building visualization tools for analyzing and debugging robot behavior
Designing and developing software interfaces to enable hardware testing and manufacturing processes.


A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support 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
We are a multidisciplinary team of collaborative Applied Scientists and Software Engineers with expertise in Computer Vision SLAM motion planning and controls. Our mission is to deliver autonomous navigation software that utilizes stateoftheart sensor technologies and algorithms to enable safe and efficient operation of autonomous mobile robots throughout the Amazon fulfillment and transportation network. We take this mission seriously and work hard to achieve it but we have a lot of fun along the way. After all whats more fun than building robots



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
Experience developing software for realtime and embedded systems

Experience developing software for realtime and embedded systems
Experience with Linux kernel and OS setup and configuration
Device driver development
Experience with ROS
Experience with ML frameworks such has AWS Sagemaker Pytorch and MLFlow.
Experience with NVIDIA JetPack SDK and related technologies
Experience with Yocto
GPU development experience
Experience building and maintaining developerfacing tools
Experience with AWS services and technologies

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