Embedded Software Engineer, Mobile Robotics

About the role

Amazon Robotics is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer with Rust programming expertise to join our Safety Perception team. In this role, you will develop embedded firmware for safety-rated sensor processing on heterogeneous multi-core MCU/CPU/GPU platforms. You will write real-time safety applications, sensor processing pipelines, and system interfaces that enable robots operating in Amazon facilities worldwide to detect and respond to obstacles safely and reliably.

The ideal candidate is passionate about building solutions for customers and collaborates effectively with cross-functional hardware, functional safety, and navigation teams to deliver firmware meeting IEC 61508 functional safety certification standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain safety-rated and non-safety-rated embedded firmware in Rust on heterogeneous multi-core platforms where real-time safety code and Linux-based services coexist on the same chip.
• Work across the full sensor processing pipeline: from driver integration and frame acquisition, through point cloud generation, to real-time collision detection, ensuring data integrity through black-channel diagnostics.
• Design and implement perception features enabling autonomous robots to detect and respond to obstacles under IEC 61508 functional safety constraints.
• Contribute to system interfaces and tooling (gRPC/protobuf APIs, CLI tools, visualization) serving navigation, manufacturing, and field provisioning workflows.
• Produce design documents and safety analysis artifacts required for third-party certification and witness testing.
• Debug issues end-to-end—from raw sensor data through embedded pipelines to safety system responses—on real robots at test facilities and in production.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 3+ years of embedded firmware development experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Proficiency in embedded development in Rust; alternatively, strong C/C++ embedded experience with demonstrated willingness and ability to work in Rust.
• Experience with sensor data acquisition or signal processing (cameras, LiDAR, time-of-flight, or similar).

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, or similar RPC/serialization frameworks.
• Familiarity developing embedded software in a safety-standards-controlled environment such as IEC 61508 or ISO 26262.
• Working knowledge of 3D geometry, coordinate transforms, or point cloud processing.
• Experience with robotics middleware (ROS/ROS2) or visualization tools (Foxglove, RViz).

About the team

The Safety Perception team consists of embedded software engineers applying innovative advances in robotics and sensor processing to solve real-world safety challenges. We write embedded Rust on platforms where correctness is critical and own the full stack: from low-level driver integration to system APIs to test infrastructure. We prioritize safety while delivering high-performance solutions and strive to create intuitive systems that make safety effortless.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Maternity and parental leave options.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• 401(k) plan.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Pay

USA, MA (North Reading or Westboro): $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually.