Senior Software Development Engineer

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Amazon
Full time
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USA
11/08/2026
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North Reading, MA

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for perception, SLAM, navigation, and spatial memory software on robots.
Lead productization of research prototypes into fast, reliable production components on embedded GPUs.
Own robot perception and navigation performance in real facilities and drive improvements.
Make architectural tradeoffs between on-robot and cloud execution and manage shared compute across models.
Define interfaces between perception, mobility, planning, manipulation, and safety systems.
Build evaluation strategies for robot performance and use results to set priorities.
Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, support hiring, and raise engineering standards.

Requirements

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
5+ years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team lead.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree, or 10+ years of experience in computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
Experience designing and shipping perception, computer vision, SLAM, or navigation software for robots, autonomous vehicles, or other real-world systems.
Preferred: master’s degree or PhD focused on robotics, computer vision, state estimation, or machine learning.
Preferred: experience leading production perception, SLAM, or navigation software for robots or autonomous vehicles.
Preferred: experience optimizing machine learning models or computer vision pipelines for real-time embedded GPU inference.
Preferred: experience with 3D perception, state estimation, navigation and autonomy stacks, foundation-model integration, model compression, GPU profiling, multi-camera and multi-sensor systems, heterogeneous accelerators, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop evaluation.
Preferred: experience using AI coding assistants and agents with sound judgment in reviewing their output.
Excellent written and verbal communication and a record of leading technical work across science and engineering teams.

Benefits

Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and AD&D coverage.
Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the Amazon package.
Base salary varies by listed Massachusetts work location.

Salary: $168k - $227k/yr

Amazon

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