Amazon is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic dexterous manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. This role presents an opportunity to shape the future of robotics through innovative applications of the latest software and AI tools for robots.
At Amazon we leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve complex operational challenges at an unprecedented scale. Our fleet of robots operates across hundreds of facilities worldwide, working in sophisticated coordination to fulfill our mission of customer excellence.
We are building the brains of our next-generation robots - a stack that:
- Enables deployment of robots at Amazon scale
- Enables unprecedented generalization across diverse tasks
- Seamlessly integrates with large models and optimal control techniques
- Integrates with human-safe safety solutions
As a Software Development Engineer on our on-robot software team, you will help our robots know where they are and get where they need to go. You will partner with applied scientists working on localization and mapping (SLAM), spatial memory, and navigation to turn their algorithms into fast, reliable on-robot components. You will integrate them with perception, task planning, and safety, and measure how well they work on real robot data. Our robots work in large, busy, and changing spaces, where a robot that loses track of where it is can't do its job.
Join us in building the next generation of intelligent robotics systems that will transform the future of automation and human-robot collaboration.
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with scientists and engineers to turn SLAM, mapping, and navigation algorithms into production on-robot components
- Build the localization and mapping pipeline, and keep the robot localized over long distances in large spaces that change throughout the day
- Build the spatial memory that records what the robot has seen and where
- Make navigation reliable alongside perception and safety, including recovering when the robot gets stuck
- Measure how well localization and navigation work on real robot data, and use that to improve them
- Make it all run in real time on the robot's embedded compute, and debug failures on real robots
- Write design docs and experiment reports that are clear about tradeoffs and limitations
