2 days ago
North Reading, MA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with scientists and engineers to productionize SLAM, mapping, and navigation algorithms as on-robot components.
- Build localization and mapping pipelines that keep robots localized over long distances in changing environments.
- Develop spatial memory that records what robots have seen and where.
- Improve navigation reliability alongside perception and safety, including recovery from stuck conditions.
- Measure localization and navigation performance on real robot data and use results to improve the systems.
- Run software in real time on embedded robotic compute and debug failures on physical robots.
- Write design documents and experiment reports describing tradeoffs and limitations.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Experience programming in C++ and/or Python.
- Experience developing or integrating perception, SLAM, localization, or navigation software for robots, autonomous vehicles, or other real-world systems.
- Preferred: a master’s degree or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field focused on state estimation, computer vision, or robotics.
- Preferred: experience with SLAM, state estimation, odometry, loop closure, pose-graph optimization, and localization in prebuilt maps.
- Preferred: experience with navigation stacks, 3D data and point clouds, occupancy or voxel mapping, semantic maps, scene graphs, or robotic spatial memory.
- Preferred: experience with multi-sensor pipelines, time synchronization, coordinate-frame management, research-to-production development, and porting Python prototypes to C++.
- Preferred: experience optimizing SLAM, perception, or machine-learning workloads for real-time embedded CPUs and GPUs.
- Preferred: experience with simulation-based or hardware-in-the-loop evaluation for localization or navigation.
- Preferred: experience using AI coding assistants and agents with sound judgment when reviewing and verifying their output.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across science and engineering teams.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- The role is located in North Reading, Massachusetts, USA.
- Amazon’s package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; compensation is determined by experience, qualifications, and location.
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.