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# Senior SDE - Simulation Infrastructure & Platform, Industrial Robotics Group

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Reading, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $168,100.0 - $227,400.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Data Structures, Software Design Patterns, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Scientific Computating, Software Construction, Software Engineering, Toolchain, Reinforcement Learning, Cloud Platform System, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Build Tools, Docker, Programming Languages
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d44a2a08356f3e7c

## About the Role

* 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
 * Programming skills in C++ and Python, with solid foundations in data structures, algorithms, and software design
 * Experience designing and operating scalable, distributed, or cloud-based systems
 * Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and modern build systems
 * Experience developing maintainable, production-quality infrastructure supporting engineering, ML, or scientific computing workflows

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

 * Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related technical field
 * Experience building internal developer platforms or engineering productivity tooling
 * Experience operating GPU-accelerated or large-scale compute workloads in cloud environments
 * Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
 * Experience improving and maintaining large C++ codebases
 * Experience supporting research-to-production or prototype-to-scale transitions
 * Exposure to robotics or simulation systems, including familiarity with common robotics formats and toolchains
 * Experience with modern simulation ecosystems (e.g., Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Drake)
 * Experience developing or supporting scalable evaluation, benchmarking, or training workflows
 * Contributions to open-source robotics, simulation, or infrastructure projects

## Description

* Design and operate the core simulation platform infrastructure supporting large-scale robotics development and learning workloads
 * Architect and scale cloud-native systems in AWS, including distributed job orchestration, resource management, and cost-efficient compute utilization
 * Own CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and automated testing infrastructure for complex C++ and Python codebases
 * Develop and maintain tooling to manage simulation environments, assets, and versioned artifacts across teams
 * Improve performance, reliability, and reproducibility through observability, profiling, and automated regression systems
 * Establish and enforce software engineering best practices, including modular architecture, code quality standards, and long-term maintainability
 * Partner with robotics and research teams to productionize advanced capabilities into robust, scalable software systems
 * Enable large-scale validation, benchmarking, and certification workflows through automated evaluation infrastructure

About the team
Our team is building a comprehensive simulation platform for advanced robotics development, combining locomotion and manipulation capabilities. We operate at the forefront of physics simulation, reinforcement learning, and sim-to-real transfer, collaborating with world-class robotics engineers, applied scientists, and mechanical designers in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.


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