Software Development Engineer II - Amazon Robotics, Proteus AMR, Motion

Key job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy software for task planning, motion planning, and control systems for autonomous mobile robots
• Build scalable, generalizable, and highly reliable systems with comprehensive metrics monitoring and regression alarming
• Sustain production robotics systems deployed across Amazon's fulfillment network, troubleshooting issues and implementing improvements
• Develop generalizations that enable autonomous navigation capabilities to scale to new environments and use cases
• Collaborate with Applied Scientists to integrate machine learning models into production motion planning and control systems
• Work with cross-functional teams (Perception, SLAM, Infrastructure, Fleet Management) to deliver end-to-end autonomous navigation solutions
• Contribute to the full software development lifecycle including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support
• Write high-quality, maintainable code primarily in C++ and TypeScript, with exposure to Python, Java, ROS/ROS2, TensorFlow, TensorRT, and PyTorch

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with C++ or TypeScript in production environments
• Experience with robotics frameworks such as ROS or ROS2
• Experience implementing autonomous navigation systems (motion planning, perception, SLAM), or task planning and action generation from machine learning models
• Experience with machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, TensorRT, PyTorch) and integrating ML models into production systems
• Experience with embedded systems or real-time software development

About the team

The Proteus Gluon Motion team is at the forefront of autonomous mobile robotics at Amazon. Proteus is Amazon's first fully autonomous warehouse robot, currently deployed in 22+ fulfillment sites across the Amazon network and expanding rapidly. Our mission is to improve operational efficiency while making the warehouse floor safer for people through state-of-the art autonomous navigation technology.