Senior Software Engineer, Fauna

We areseekingan experienced SeniorSoftware Engineer to join our dynamic this role you will drive technical strategy and architecture decisions for software modules that empower robots to operate.

Key job responsibilities
- Drive architecture and design decisions for robotic software systems including perception navigation motor control reasoning and human-robot interaction.
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex software systems from design through production deployment and operational excellence.
- Lead collaboration across research machine learning hardware and operations teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Define technical roadmaps and drive innovation in robotic software development including production-level SDKs for developer use.
- Design and implement systems and tools that accelerate development velocity for multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

About the team
Fauna Robotics an Amazon company is building capable safe and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.
We believe that future wont arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. Were changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster safer and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.
Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design control systems dynamic modeling and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality but experience. Were building robots that feel responsive expressive and genuinely useful.
At Fauna youll work at the frontier of this space helping define how robots move manipulate and interact with people in natural environments. Its an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.
If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable were interested in hearing from you.

- 5 years of non-internship 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
- Bachelors degree or above in robotics mechanical/mechatronics engineering systems engineering or related field
- Knowledge of data structures algorithm design statistics and system design
- Experience leading the design build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production
- Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical / architectural trade-offs best practices and risk mitigation

- Experience in robotics design automation systems development control systems design or related product development
- Experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations or experience in development or technical support
- Experience mentoring or training the engineering community on complex technical issues
- Track record of delivering developer-facing products with robust SDKs and fault-tolerant distributed systems.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually