Robotics - Software Development Engineer

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · CA, ON +1 · Software Development

Software Development Engineer role focused on robotics at Amazon, involving the design, development, and testing of software components that interact with fulfillment center technologies like robotics, material handling equipment, computer vision, and cloud services. The role also involves leveraging GenAI and AI-powered tools to enhance development productivity.

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

  • Experience with at least one modern language such as Java, Python, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
  • 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 in optimization mathematics such as linear programming and nonlinear optimization
  • Experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, algorithms, and relational databases
  • 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
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly
  • Basic understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Experience in Linux application development
  • Experience with ROS/ROS 2 for robotics middleware
  • Experience within Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Optimization, Manipulation, Perception, Motion Planning and Controls, Movement, Autonomous Navigation, Path Planning, or related

What the JD emphasized

  • robotics
  • computer vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Optimization
  • Manipulation
  • Perception
  • Motion Planning and Controls
  • Movement
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Path Planning

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.