Amazon Robotics is looking for an Embedded Software Engineer with expertise in Rust to join the Safety Perception team. This role focuses on developing safety-rated sensor processing firmware for autonomous robots operating in Amazon facilities. The ideal candidate will work on embedded firmware across heterogeneous multi-core platforms, ensuring compliance with IEC 61508 functional safety certification. The team is dedicated to solving real-world safety challenges through innovative robotics and sensor processing.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• 3+ 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 a willingness to work in Rust
• Experience with sensor data acquisition or signal processing
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience
• 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 heterogeneous multi-core platforms.
• Work across the full sensor processing pipeline, ensuring data integrity through diagnostics.
• Design and implement perception features that enable autonomous robots to detect and respond to obstacles.
• Contribute to system interfaces and tooling that serve 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.