Sr. Software Development Manager

Role Overview

Amazon is seeking an exceptional Senior Manager, Software Development to own and drive SW integration and validation on simulation, and emulation platforms, own test strategy and test plans including policy validation and safety for next‑generation advanced robotics systems.

You will build deep partnerships with internal robotics teams, our simulation team, and influence product design from concept through production deployment. This role requires deep knowledge and experience using simulation platforms, building emulation platforms, driving test strategy and vision for software and scale for the volume while ensuring sim‑to‑real gap measurements accurately measured and published. You will partner with engineering leaders across the robotics organization, shape our product architecture for testability and automation, and define our software integration and simulation testing roadmap.

• End‑to‑End Architectural Vision for Software Validation
• Adversary Testing & Platform Integration – interface with the platform team to enable adversary testing of the simulation platform, ensuring robustness and resilience under edge‑case and failure‑mode scenarios.
• Set up HIL test beds and continuous validation, building CICD pipelines.
• Provide virtualized dynamic environments that allow for realizing the testability of software in field environments, enabling rapid iteration and validation without physical deployment.
• Safety Qualification through Simulation – qualify software for safety, ensuring compliance with safety standards and enabling rigorous validation of autonomous behaviors prior to real‑world deployment.

• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• 10+ years of software development experience
• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects, and development teams in an Agile environment
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• 10+ years of experience with embedded device/OS in the areas of firmware/software or test engineering development; deep expertise working with devices/hardware/systems.

• Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• Experience designing and developing large‑scale, high‑traffic applications

Amazon is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.