Software Engineer II, Autonomy Platform, Data and Tools

The Amazon Robotics Autonomous Mobility software team develops the autonomy software that powers Proteus, Amazon's 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 autonomy software stack
• Developing and customizing our Nvidia Jetpack based platform and OS.
• Building data pipelines and tools to enable our ML-development 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., We are a multi-disciplinary organization of collaborative Applied Scientists and Software Engineers with expertise in Computer Vision, SLAM, motion planning, controls, embedded development, and more. Our mission is to deliver autonomous navigation software that utilizes state-of-the-art 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, what's more fun than building robots?

3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence, Experience with CUDA kernels or ML/low-level kernels
• Experience in embedded development in C/C++
• Experience working in a cloud based development and production environment such as AWS
• Experience building tools for building, testing, releasing or monitoring
• Experience in Unix, or experience working with device technologies under development, familiarity with flashing firmware, basic device debugging and familiarity with reading/pulling device logs
• Experience building custom distributions using tools such as Yocto or Buildroot

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan, 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, MA, North Reading - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually