The Software Development Engineer role at Amazon Robotics focuses on advancing reinforcement learning for manipulation in robotics. The team aims to develop reliable execution of learned policies on real robots while building necessary tooling and automation for experiments. This position requires collaboration with scientists and other teams to enhance performance and scalability. The engineer will play a crucial role in transforming research results into robust capabilities for various robotics applications.

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• 3+ years of programming experience using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#
• Experience working effectively with science, data processing, and software engineering teams
• Experience building and operating scalable backend systems, services, or data pipelines
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience
• Experience with hardware/software integration and real-time systems
• Experience with machine learning infrastructure
• Experience improving the productivity of a research or science team through tooling and infrastructure
• Experience with robotics software stacks or simulation environments
• Familiarity with reinforcement learning or the training-to-deployment lifecycle for learned models

• Build the tooling and automation the team needs to run and scale experiments.
• Partner with scientists to get learned policies running in real time on robot hardware.
• Identify and remove the recurring engineering bottlenecks that slow the team down.
• Write production-quality code and build systems the team can rely on and reuse.
• Partner with teams across simulation, control, hardware, and infrastructure to scale reliably and quickly.

• 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.