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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Development Engineer - Robotics Simulation, Amazon Robotics R&D - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Boston, MA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $143,700.0 - $194,400.0 - **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon S3, Ubuntu (Operating System), Cloud Computing, Computer Clusters, Code Review, Nvidia CUDA, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Computing Environment, Middleware, Python (Programming Language), Motion Planning, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, Reinforcement Learning, Mobile Robots, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines, Docker, Data Generation - **Published:** June 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F27A62576F6B4AD29C456988A99564C6/job/ ## About the Role * 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience * 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience, * 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience * Master's or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field. * Hands-on experience with NVIDIA simulation and synthetic data tools. * Experience building reinforcement learning training environments with domain randomization for sim-to-real transfer. * Experience modeling contact dynamics for grippers, suction systems, or tendon-driven mechanisms. * Familiarity with ROS2 and robotics middleware for teleoperation, motion planning, or sensor integration. * Experience with distributed training infrastructure and scaling parallel simulation environments on GPU clusters. * Experience with AWS services (Batch, S3, ECR, CDK) for cloud-based rendering or training pipelines. * Experience with GPU-accelerated computing (CUDA, NVIDIA Warp, or similar). * Contributions to open-source robotics or simulation projects. ## Description We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the Robotics Simulation team at Amazon Robotics. This role sits at the intersection of robotics simulation, physics-based modeling, reinforcement learning infrastructure, and synthetic data generation. 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