Robotics - Software Development Engineer

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · North Reading, MA · Software Development

Software Development Engineer role focused on robotics within Amazon's fulfillment centers. The role involves designing, building, and operating innovative products and services, with an emphasis on scalable cloud-native architectures and microservices. A key responsibility is to leverage and contribute to GenAI and AI-powered tools to improve development productivity, and to develop software components that interact with robotics, computer vision, and other fulfillment center technologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate and communicate effectively with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to design, build, and operate innovative products and services that delight our customers, while participating in technical discussions to drive solutions forward.
  2. Design and develop scalable solutions using cloud-native architectures and microservices in a large distributed computing environment.
  3. Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical documentation.
  4. Build and maintain resilient distributed systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective.
  5. Leverage and contribute to the development of GenAI and AI-powered tools to enhance development productivity while staying current with emerging technologies.
  6. Write clean, maintainable code following best practices and design patterns.
  7. Work in an agile environment practicing CI/CD principles while participating in operational responsibilities including on-call duties.
  8. Demonstrate operational excellence through monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues.
  9. Design, develop and test software components that interact with fulfillment center technologies, such as robotics, material handling equipment, computer vision, and cloud services.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • Experience with at least one general-purpose programming language such as Java, Python, C++, C#, Go, Rust, or TypeScript
  • Experience with data structure implementation, basic algorithm development, and/or object-oriented design principles

Nice to have

  • Experience from previous technical internship(s) or demonstrated project experience
  • Experience with Cloud platforms (preferably AWS), database systems (SQL and NoSQL), AI tools for development productivity, contributing to open-source projects, and/or version control systems
  • Experience in optimization mathematics such as linear programming and nonlinear optimization
  • Experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, algorithms, and relational databases
  • Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
  • Experience within Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Optimization, Manipulation, Perception, Motion Planning and Controls, Movement, Autonomous Navigation, Path Planning, or related

Other signals

  • Leverage and contribute to the development of GenAI and AI-powered tools to enhance development productivity
  • Design, develop and test software components that interact with fulfillment center technologies, such as robotics, material handling equipment, computer vision, and cloud services.