Senior Robotics SDE III, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan
Core
Design and build software infrastructure for motion behavior execution, observability, debugging, and deployment pipelines for contact-rich robotic manipulation in complex, unstructured environments.
Role type
Senior Software Development Engineer (Robotics Infrastructure)
Builds
Production-ready robotic behavior capabilities, motion execution controllers, and ML training/deployment pipelines for Amazon's global operations.
Domain
Robotics, Machine Learning Systems, Production Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
C++, Python, system design and architecture, robotics/autonomy/controls experience, production deployment and observability, mentoring/tech lead experience
Preferred skills
ML training pipelines and inference infrastructure, data replay and simulation, real-time control systems, behavior trees or state machines
Technologies
C++, Python, robotic middleware, motion planning algorithms
Responsibilities
Design software infrastructure for motion behavior execution; build observability and debugging tools; develop replay and evaluation infrastructure; define safe deployment strategies; build runtime integration layers for learned behaviors; set engineering standards and mentor the team.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
