2 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and architecture of safety-rated and non-safety-rated firmware subsystems in Rust on heterogeneous multi-core platforms.
- Set technical direction across sensor processing, including driver integration, frame acquisition, point-cloud generation, and collision detection.
- Own complex end-to-end technical problems and influence hardware, functional safety, and navigation teams.
- Conduct design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and raise engineering quality.
- Produce design documents and safety-analysis artifacts for third-party certification and witness testing.
- Lead debugging and root-cause analysis from raw sensor data through safety responses on test and production robots.
- Profile pipelines, manage latency budgets, and use AI coding assistants to improve team productivity.
Requirements
- 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 6+ years of programming experience with at least one programming language.
- 6+ years of leading design or architecture for new and existing systems.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Proficiency in embedded Rust, or strong modern embedded C/C++ experience with demonstrated willingness and ability to work in Rust.
- Preferred: 6+ years covering the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: experience with RTOS or bare-metal real-time systems and heterogeneous multi-core platforms.
- Preferred: experience troubleshooting hardware and writing low-level drivers such as V4L2, I2C, SPI, and DMA.
- Preferred: experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, or similar RPC and serialization frameworks.
- Preferred: familiarity with IEC 61508 or ISO 26262 safety-controlled development environments.
- Preferred: knowledge of 3D geometry, coordinate transforms, point-cloud processing, ROS or ROS2, and visualization tools such as Foxglove or RViz.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance program, 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.
- The role is listed in North Reading and Westboro, Massachusetts.
- Base salary is listed separately for USA, MA, North Reading and USA, MA, Westboro.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.