Amazon Robotics seeks an SDE II to spearhead development machine learning and computer vision based software technologies. This role provides ample opportunity to influence, innovate and shape the next generation of robotics tech. You will have opportunities to partner with other software and hardware teams in Amazon Robotics and across Amazon. Joining this team enables you to be on the forefront of new product development and technology that improves our systems and the experience for our customers around the globe.

Key job responsibilities

As an SDE II in the Scanless Technologies organization at Amazon Robotics, you will:

- Develop computer vision applications that run at the edge and in the cloud. You will leverage state of the art CV techniques at the edge and AWS ML technologies

- Partner with other engaged, friendly, fundamentals-first thinking oriented engineers to translate customer use cases and implement core engineering capabilities for Amazon's enormous fulfillment network.

- Operate across multiple layers of the stack to design and build fault-tolerant production software that optimize our fleet of fulfillment infrastructure and robots.

- Participate in software architecture and design reviews.

- Develop tools to test and evaluate complex systems, including those deployed in production at customer sites, and dig into critical pieces of distributed systems like logging, tracing, metrics.

- Hire and mentor other engineers on the team.

A day in the life

Amazon Robotics is developing state of the art technologies that will forever change the way products and packages are identified, all by using Computer Vision, Machine Learning. We envision a time when manual item identification (typically barcode scanning) is a vestige of the past. You will be a technical guide for the development of new components and cross-functional programs requiring the work of multiple engineers and scientists. Partner with Applied Scientists to prototype and develop Machine Learning applications that deliver on this vision.

Come join with us in developing pioneering applications in a highly exciting and innovative environment where your solutions will impact tens of thousands of users for every minute of their working day!

Amazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members, including domestic partners. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.

The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you're passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team

As a software development engineer (SDE) on the Amazon Robotics Scanless Technologies team, you will be a technical guide and contributor to an exciting, diverse team that is accountable for developing and deploying full-stack software systems using AWS that are scalable, reliable and performant, is obsessed over its customers at its core and its solutions impact thousands of users for every minute of their working day! AI (Machine Learning, Data Science, etc.) is at the core of everything this team builds. Our solutions are deployed at the Edge and in the Cloud at scale!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience

- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience

- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience

- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

- Knowledge of machine learning model architecture and inference

- Experience with one of the following areas: machine learning technologies, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP) or related applications

- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities

- Decisive with limited information and able to learn rapidly.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, MA, Westboro - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually