Senior Software Engineer - Amazon Robotics, Robotic Movement

Amazon Robotics is seeking a talented and motivated engineer to architect, design, and develop innovative capabilities across highly-scalable robotic systems. You will architect, design and implement software that controls the movement of hundreds of thousands of robotic drives within Amazon's Robotics fulfillment network. Our team's software is at the heart of ensuring Amazon?s retail customers get their packages on time.

You will have opportunities to collaborate and work with firmware engineers, applied scientists, data scientists and cross-functional teams on cutting-edge automation solutions for Amazon's ever-growing robotic fleet.

Key job responsibilities

Architect, design, and implement robotic applications and infrastructure.

Influence the team's strategy and contribute to long-term vision and roadmap.

Work with stakeholders across organization to iterate on design and implementation.

Maintain high standards by participating in reviews, designing for fault tolerance and operational excellence, and creating mechanisms for continuous improvement.

Prototype and test concepts or features, both through simulation and emulators and with live robotic equipment

Work directly with customers and partners to test prototypes and incorporate feedback

Mentor other engineer team members.

A day in the life

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you're passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team

As a Robotic Movement software engineer, you design and deliver cloud-based, high-performance software that controls Amazon's world-wide fleet of mobile robots. The service-based software architecture is mainly written in Java and built using AWS products. Our team balances building new services to meet the needs of our growing customer base and extending existing services by developing new algorithms or by optimizing application performance.

Basic Qualifications

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

Strong background in algorithms and system design used to solve complex problems for highly-scalable systems

Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading/supporting an engineering team

Strong communication skills, ability to support and collaborate work well in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

M.S./Ph.D. in Science or related field

Strong background in algorithms and hands-on experience in developing algorithms for highly-scalable systems

Experience in autonomous path planning or navigational solutions/algorithms

Experience developing in Web Services - AWS

Robotics expertise with hardware and firmware and how it interacts with the . Robotics movement, , etc.

Experience with mentoring other engineers.

Experience developing cloud services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability

Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and test in a fast-paced environment

Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently

Strong communication skills, ability to work well in a team environment

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