Robotics Software Development Engineer II Robot Perception and Action

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 engineer who can deliver creative software solutions to advance the stateofthe art in robot perception and action planning. You will be part of a team that owns the basic research to unlock new abilities bringing advancements to production optimizing for speed stability and building the supporting web services. Our work spans realtime software machine learning engineering computer vision big data simulation and more.

Our team launched the first largescale Robotic Manipulation capability in 2020 (Robin). The solution has now scaled to a fleet of >1300 and has shipped >3B packages. No comparable solutions exist in the world. We followed up with newer robots (Cardinal and Sparrow). Its time to expand our work to include more types of robots and larger fleets of robots in order 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
As a Software Engineer you will:

Identify and develop software solutions to current business problems
Work with your manager and team to create milestones and deliverables
Participate in daily scrums and reviews with development teams
Develop documentation and lead reviews with other engineers
Write code and unit tests and integrate code with other software and hardware components
Prototype and test concepts or features both through simulation tools and emulators and with live robotic equipment
Work directly with customers to test software prototypes and incorporate feedback
Utilize Amazon Robotics and Amazon engineering tools processes and technologies

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits for 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


About the team
Our team builds software to enable our robots to understand their environment and manipulate objects in that environment. We research invent and use machine learning models to detect track and pick up objects in the scene for all manipulation robots. We develop and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for object detection grasping and quality assessment. These include 1 Object detection and grasping accuracy (Manual exception rate First Pass Yield (FPY) 2 Grasp quality evaluation (Segmentation Mean Average Precision (MAP) and Multipick detection rate). We optimize task by providing our scene analysis and grasping algorithms to planning systems including: Motion planning Item Detection (ID) and Consolidation planning. This integration enhances overall system performance and efficiency.

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/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.