System Development Engineer, Workcell Technologies

Are you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to these questions and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We are a smart team of doers who work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers experiences in ways we can’t even image yet. We invent new improvements every day.

Amazon Robotics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, empowers a smarter, faster, more consistent customer experience through automation. Amazon Robotics automates fulfilment center operations using various methods of robotic technology including autonomous mobile robots, sophisticated control software, language perception, power management, computer vision, depth sensing, machine learning, object recognition, and semantic understanding of commands. Amazon Robotics has a dedicated focus on research and development to continuously explore new opportunities to extend its product lines into new areas.

Job Overview

Amazon Robotics is seeking a talented and motivated Systems Development Engineer I to join our Workcell Technology team. The candidate will have the opportunity work with senior engineering staff on existing and new projects. The ideal candidate has strong engineering aptitude, enjoys problem solving and can potentially handle multiple parallel tasks.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:
– Solves straightforward technical problems at the component level with tested, maintainable solutions.
– Enables greater team agility via improvements to design, automation, development, test, or operations.
– Identifies risks and mitigations in designs solving defined technical problems and makes trade-offs.
– Able to develop software for small tools and applications. Code is tested, logical, and maintainable.
– Develops Technology solutions that are simple to start but may have opportunities for optimizations, efficiencies, or scaling.
– Writes clear, accurate and concise documentation.
– Performs basic troubleshooting which mitigates issue for team or customer impact.
– Performs simulations on workcell or equipment performance and publishes metrics that can be used to monitor effectiveness of a program

Basic Qualifications

– Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting infrastructure
– Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
– Experience with Linux/Unix

Preferred Qualifications

– Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

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