The Amazon Robotics Autonomous Mobility software team is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join their Platform, Data and Tools team. This role involves developing autonomy software for Amazon's first fully autonomous warehouse robot, Proteus. The engineer will work on onboard mapping, perception, motion planning, and control software while collaborating with engineers and scientists to enhance machine learning training and deployment pipelines. The team focuses on delivering state-of-the-art navigation software for autonomous mobile robots within Amazon's fulfillment and transportation network.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle
• Experience with CUDA kernels or ML/low-level kernels
• Experience in embedded development in C/C++
• Experience working in a cloud-based development and production environment such as AWS
• Experience building tools for building, testing, releasing, or monitoring
• Experience in Unix or working with device technologies under development
• Experience building custom distributions using tools such as Yocto or Buildroot

• Optimize runtime performance of core algorithms by exploiting underlying hardware acceleration capabilities
• Integrate new sensors and hardware components into the autonomy software stack
• Develop and customize the Nvidia Jetpack based platform and OS
• Build data pipelines and tools to enable machine learning development
• Develop software to enable remote diagnostics, recovery, and control of autonomous robots
• Build visualization tools for analyzing and debugging robot behavior
• Design and develop software interfaces to enable hardware testing and manufacturing processes

• 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.