Robotics Control Engineer, Amazon Robotics Vulcan Stow

About the role

Our team in Amazon Robotics builds high-performance, real-time robotic systems that can perceive, learn, and act intelligently alongside humans - at Amazon scale. Our mission is to enable robots to interact safely, efficiently, and fluently with the clutter and uncertainty of real-world fulfillment centers. Our solutions enable robots to learn from their own experiences, from each other, and from humans to build intelligence that feeds itself.

Responsibilities

• Design, simplify and continuously improve system controls architecture including machine control code, networking, electrical design and safety design
• Develop controls code utilizing structured text on Codesys platforms
• Identify and implement system optimizations
• Work closely with hardware and software engineering team members to drive scalable, real-time implementations
• Partner closely with hardware engineering team members on developing systems from prototyping to production level
• Launch, test, and debug our systems both in the lab and in the field
• Develop tools and best practices for system monitoring and troubleshooting, including HMI development
• Work with stakeholders across hardware, science, and operations teams to iterate on systems design and implementation
• Contribute to value engineering of the system’s electrical and controls hardware components

Requirements

A day in the life includes:

• Developing new features to enhance the capabilities of our robotic workcells, improve their performance, improve diagnostics, or improve the tasks of those that operate, maintain, service, or commission our systems.
• Creating system designs for complex features or approaches.
• Partnering with team members to seek and incorporate feedback.
• Performing code reviews for team members, or replying to the code reviews you've received back.
• Testing features and functionality in our machines or test cells in our lab.
• Working with the teams running our machines, processing actual Amazon inventory, providing guidance, and receiving feedback on how our systems are being used.

Qualifications

• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes