Amazon
Senior Embedded Robotics SDE, Compass
$168K–$227K
PASADENA, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Location
- PASADENA, CA
Pasadena, CA - Experience
- 5+ years for each of the listed basic qualifications; preferred: 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Own and certify safety-critical embedded software for Amazon’s robotics fleet, translating R&D algorithms into production-ready modules and coordinating requirements through certification.
What you'll do
- Maintain safety-critical embedded software modules and drive them through the formal certification lifecycle.
- Translate R&D algorithms into certifiable software and communicate certification-related requirements upstream.
- Collaborate with safety, lab, testing, and quality engineers to ensure traceability from requirements to certification evidence.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
MISRA C++, AUTOSAR, RL
AI focus
The team integrates safety with motion planning, RL, and foundation models; this role translates R&D algorithms into production-grade, certifiable embedded software.
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