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Senior SDE, Simulation Infrastructure & Platform

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2 days ago
North Reading, MA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$168k - $227k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate core simulation platform infrastructure for large-scale robotics development and learning workloads.
  • Architect and scale AWS cloud-native systems for distributed job orchestration, resource management, and cost-efficient compute.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and automated testing infrastructure for C++ and Python codebases.
  • Develop tooling for simulation environments, assets, and versioned artifacts across teams.
  • Improve performance, reliability, and reproducibility through observability, profiling, and automated regression systems.
  • Establish software architecture, code quality, and maintainability standards.
  • Partner with robotics and research teams to productionize advanced capabilities.
  • Enable automated validation, benchmarking, certification, and evaluation workflows.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 5 years of programming experience with one or more software programming languages.
  • At least 5 years of leading system design or architecture for reliability and scaling.
  • Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, Software Development, Mathematics, or a similar STEM field, or equivalent programming-language experience.
  • Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services.
  • Experience with large-scale infrastructure supporting engineering, ML, or scientific computing workflows.
  • Preferred experience with accelerated, high-performance, visual/spatial, or IoT compute; Kubernetes, Docker, or containers; internal developer platforms; large C++ codebases; research-to-production transitions; robotics or simulation toolchains; Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or Drake; scalable evaluation, benchmarking, or training workflows; and relevant open-source contributions.
  • A master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related technical field is preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, EAP, mental health support, medical advice, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the overall Amazon package.
  • The position is located in North Reading, Massachusetts.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

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.

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