Software Engineer II, Autonomy Platform, Data and Tools

Amazon•North Reading, MA

51d•Onsite

About The Position

The Amazon Robotics Autonomous Mobility software team develops the autonomy software that powers Proteus, Amazon’s first fully autonomous warehouse robot. We are growing and are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our Platform, Data and Tools team. You will be part of an exceptional group of 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 and enhance our ML training and deployment pipelines.

Requirements

3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

Nice To Haves

Experience with CUDA kernels or ML/low-level kernels
Experience in Unix, or experience working with device technologies under development, familiarity with flashing firmware, basic device debugging and familiarity with reading/pulling device logs
Experience building tools for building, testing, releasing or monitoring
Experience working in a cloud based development and production environment such as AWS
Experience in embedded development in C/C++
Experience building custom distributions using tools such as Yocto or Buildroot

Responsibilities

Optimizing runtime performance of core algorithms by exploiting underlying hardware acceleration capabilities
Integrating new sensors and hardware components into the autonomy software stack
Developing and customizing our Nvidia Jetpack based platform and OS.
Building data pipelines and tools to enable our ML-development flywheel
Developing software to enable remote diagnostics, recovery and control of autonomous robots
Building visualization tools for analyzing and debugging robot behavior
Designing and developing software interfaces to enable hardware testing and manufacturing processes.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
Maternity and Parental Leave Options
Paid Time Off (PTO)
401(k) Plan
sign-on payments
restricted stock units (RSUs)
health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
401(k) matching
paid time off
parental leave