Amazon Robotics is looking for an Embedded Software Engineer to join the Safety Perception team, focusing on developing safety-rated sensor processing firmware for autonomous robots. The role involves working with Rust programming on multi-core ARM platforms and requires collaboration with hardware and navigation teams to ensure functional safety. The team is dedicated to building innovative solutions that enhance safety and performance for Amazon's robot fleet. Candidates will engage in a variety of tasks, from writing design documents to debugging issues on real robots.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• 2+ years of embedded firmware development experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Proficiency in embedded development in Rust or strong C/C++ embedded experience with willingness to work in Rust
• Experience with sensor data acquisition or signal processing
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience
• Experience with hardware/software integration and real-time systems
• Knowledge of ARM CPUs
• Experience with general troubleshooting/debugging of hardware
• Experience writing low level drivers or with interrupt service routines
• Experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, or similar RPC/serialization frameworks
• Familiarity developing embedded software in a safety-standards-controlled environment
• Working knowledge of 3D geometry, coordinate transforms, or point cloud processing
• Experience with robotics middleware or visualization tools

• Develop and maintain safety-rated and non-safety-rated embedded firmware in Rust on multi-core platforms.
• Work across the full sensor processing pipeline, ensuring data integrity through diagnostics.
• Design and implement perception features for autonomous robots under IEC 61508 certification constraints.
• Contribute to system interfaces and tooling for navigation, manufacturing, and field provisioning workflows.
• Produce design documents and safety analysis artifacts for third-party certification.
• Debug issues end-to-end on real robots at test facilities and in production.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.