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# Senior Software Development Engineer, Robotics

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Reading, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $168,100.0 - $227,400.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Automation of Tests, Nvidia CUDA, Computer Programming, Software Debugging, Software Design Patterns, Middleware, Machine Learning, Regression Testing, Software Engineering, Reinforcement Learning, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Real Time Systems, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Pytorch, Large Language Models, AI Coding Agents, Information Technology, TensorRT, NVIDIA Jetson, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2bd7c975a23efdf8

## 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
 * Bachelors or Master's degree and 10+ years in CS, ME, EE or related field experience
 * Experience with robotics middleware like ROS, ZCM, or Zenoh
 * Experience designing and shipping software for physical robots or other real-time embedded systems, with deep expertise in at least one robotics area such as perception, SLAM, navigation, controls, or autonomy, * Master's degree or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
 * Experience taking robotics algorithms or machine learning models from research prototype to production on real hardware, in close partnership with applied scientists
 * Experience with mobile manipulation, locomotion, or dexterous manipulation
 * Experience integrating learned policies on a real robot (e.g., imitation or reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, LLM-based task planning)
 * Experience with real-time systems, including scheduling, deterministic timing, and sensor synchronization
 * Experience deploying and optimizing models and perception pipelines on embedded GPUs (e.g., PyTorch, CUDA, TensorRT, NVIDIA Jetson)
 * Experience with test-driven development and automated testing of robotics software, including regression testing of robot behavior with logged data, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing
 * Experience using AI coding assistants and agents to speed up development, with sound judgment about reviewing and verifying their output
 * Excellent written and verbal communication, with a track record of leading technical work across science and engineering teams

## Description

* Lead the design and delivery of on-robot subsystems, such as perception, SLAM and navigation, dexterous manipulation, low level controls, or task execution, from architecture through deployment on robots, and guide the engineers building it with you
 * Prototype quickly with applied scientists, then take the algorithms and learned models that work to production components that meet the robot's real-time, compute, and safety constraints on embedded GPU platforms
 * Define the interfaces, timing, and data contracts between perception, planning, control, and the learned policies that run alongside them
 * Make your components observable with metrics and telemetry, and lead system-level debugging of failures seen on real robots
 * Lead design reviews for the team and partner teams, and write documents for both technical and non-technical audiences
 * Mentor engineers on the team in robotics and software engineering, and raise the bar for how we build, test, and operate robot software