Senior Vision System Engineer, Amazon Robotics
Core
Lead the design and integration of vision and perception systems for robotics, bridging customer requirements with sensor, ML, and hardware engineering.
Role type
Senior IC systems engineer (vision/perception)
Builds
Camera and perception hardware platforms for robotics at scale
Domain
Robotics, computer vision, embedded systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
system-level engineering, sensor selection and integration, ML inference on edge platforms, hardware-software trade-off analysis, system architecture documentation, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
customer requirement gathering, trade-off analysis on imaging sensors, ML model profiling and benchmarking, system architecture documentation, experience in warehouse automation or logistics, familiarity with computer vision libraries and ROS, SoC architecture knowledge
Technologies
NVIDIA Jetson, Intel Movidius, Qualcomm RB series, TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, OpenCV, PCL, ROS
Responsibilities
Engage customers to define perception requirements; evaluate and recommend sensor technologies; define ML model requirements for tasks like depth estimation and object detection; profile compute resource needs for inference; communicate hardware constraints to engineering teams; author system architecture and interface control documents; drive cross-functional alignment; support lab and field validation activities.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC