Amazon
Senior Robotics SDE III, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in the specified software development, programming, and design or architecture areas; preferred full software development life cycle experience is 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and deploy software infrastructure, tools, and pipelines that make robotic manipulation behaviors reliable, observable, testable, and safe in production.
What you'll do
- Design motion-behavior infrastructure, observability, debugging, replay, regression, and evaluation tools.
- Own safe deployment and runtime integration of learned behavior components, including monitoring and fallback mechanisms.
- Set engineering standards, mentor teammates, and work with scientists and engineers to productionize robotic capabilities.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 5+ years programming in at least one language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and Python; experience building production-quality systems in robotics, autonomy, controls, or other complex real-time/near-real-time domains, and operating continuously deployed systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with ML training pipelines, model deployment, or inference infrastructure; data replay, simulation, and A/B testing.
- Familiarity with real-time control systems, robotic middleware, motion planning algorithms, state machines, behavior trees, or autonomous system runtimes.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C++, Python
AI focus
Build runtime integration, monitoring, safety, and deployment infrastructure for learned robotic behavior components; support ML training and deployment pipelines.
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