Sr Software Development Engineer, Perception, Fauna

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and scale the software systems that power perception and state estimation on our intelligent robots. In this deeply hands-on engineering role, you will design, implement, and maintain production-quality software that enables robots to understand their position and motion in real time, even in challenging and dynamic environments. You will own the full software lifecycle—from architecture and design through implementation, testing, and deployment—ensuring perception systems are reliable, performant, and maintainable at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production software systems for real-time perception and state estimation on robotic platforms like Sprout
• Build scalable data pipelines for processing, calibrating, and managing multi-sensor data (cameras, IMUs, and other sensing modalities)
• Develop and maintain deployment infrastructure for embedded hardware (e.g., ARM, GPU-accelerated edge devices), including CI/CD pipelines, OTA updates, and monitoring
• Architect software interfaces between perception, controls, and navigation subsystems within the robot's autonomy stack
• Optimize system performance under strict latency, memory, and power constraints through profiling, benchmarking, and iterative improvement
• Build and maintain testing frameworks, simulation environments, and evaluation infrastructure for perception systems
• Drive operational excellence including alarming, metrics, runbooks, and on-call support for production robotics systems
• Collaborate with applied scientists to translate research prototypes into production-ready, maintainable code

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Pay

USA, NY, New York - $184,900.00 - $250,200.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and option for Supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off and parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.