SDE II, Perception and SLAM, Autonomous Mobility

SDE II, Perception and SLAM, Autonomous Mobility

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Final date to receive applications:
Jul 27, 2026

The Amazon Robotics Autonomous Mobility software team develops the autonomy software that powers Proteus, Amazon’s first fully autonomous warehouse robot. We are looking for an enthusiastic Software Development Engineer to join our perception, localization, and machine learning team. You will be part of an exceptional group of collaborative engineers building the platform and architecture for our onboard mapping, perception, motion planning and control software.

In addition, you will collaborate with engineers and scientists across the team to develop cloud-based robot log replay and simulation capabilities.

• Design and develop perception capabilities for new sensor modalities, 3D obstacle avoidance, and localization to support a new types of mobile robots.
• Explore new agentic AI capabilities for task generalization.
• Design and implement robotic applications and infrastructure in the cloud.
• Collaborate with machine learning and perception experts to implement, measure, and deploy algorithms, such as machine learning models.
• Influence the team's strategy and contribute to long‑term vision and roadmap for generalizable autonomous mobile robotics.
• 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, emulators, and with live robotic equipment
• Profile, tune, and optimize system performance.
• Mentor other engineer team members.

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:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Maternity and Parental Leave Options
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 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.

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• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Experience with AWS or other cloud services.

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
• Hands‑on experience with robotic systems.
• Experience with robotic sensor modalities, obstacle avoidance, and localization systems.
• Experience with AWS - any or all of EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, Dynamo DB, EMR, Glue, Athena
• Experience developing cloud services with an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Experience with mobile robotics, including the areas of machine learning, data labeling, sensor procession, perception, and localization.
• Experience with AI‑native development and Agentic AI tools and frameworks.

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