Are you excited about building high-performance robotic systems that can perceive, learn, and act intelligently alongside humans? The Amazon Robotics team is creating new products and technologies that make this possible, at Amazon scale.
The Amazon Robotics team is seeking broad, curious robotics engineers to join our diverse, full-stack team. In addition to designing, building, and delivering end-to-end robotic systems, our team is responsible for core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone of our robotic applications, enabling roboticists, machine learning scientists, and software engineers to collaborate and deploy systems in the lab and in the field.
Key job responsibilities
- As a manager, you will be responsible for delivering critical robotic capabilities.
- You will manage across the science and engineering job families required to build these systems.
- You will prioritize being a great people manager: motivating, rewarding, and coaching your diverse team is the most important part of this role. You will recruit and retain top talent and excel in day-to-day people and performance management tasks.
- You will keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions.
- You will regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises and drive technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues.
- Set a vision for your team and create product roadmaps. Help your team sort out technical and product requirements and priorities. Use project management skills to deliver product roadmap items and other cross-team projects.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics or a related engineering field
- Experience in computer vision and/or motion control domains, solving complicated robotics problems for automation tasks
- Experience as a software developer with a relevant programming language (e.g. Python, Java or C++)
- Ability to build and collaborate effectively with a diverse, talented team
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral with both technical and business people. Ability to speak at a level appropriate for the audience.
- Ability to distill informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
- PhD in Computer Science, Robotics or a related engineering field
- Experience shipping computer vision, machine learning or robotics products to customers
- Hands-on experience with robotic manipulation in real-world scenarios
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying enterprise solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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