Sr. Software Development Manager, Frontier AI Robotics

Qualifications

• If you have a strong background in software development, leadership, and machine learning, we encourage you to apply
• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects, and development teams in an Agile environment
• Proficiency in Python and C++, experience in building large-scale training infrastructure using PyTorch
• Experience with Isaac Sim, Unity, Unreal, or proprietary 3D game engine, or industry-equivalent technology (3D animation, simulation, etc.)
• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing, and delivering infrastructure software
• Experience partnering with product or program management science teams working in research environments

Responsibilities

• You will leverage Amazon's vast computational resources to tackle ambitious problems in areas like very large multi-modal robotic foundation models and efficient, promptable model architectures that can scale across diverse robotic applications
• Lead the ML infrastructure team to create a model training and simulation environment for developing large robotics foundational models for reasoning, perception, locomotion, and manipulation
• Collaborate with AI researchers to implement and optimize training of new model architectures at a large scale
• Define the roadmap and build a physics realistic simulation environment for reinforcement learning, closed-loop simulations, and synthetic data generation
• Implement tooling for data creation, model experimentation, and continuous integration

Full Description

Sr.

Software Development Manager, Frontier AI Robotics

As a Sr.

Software Development Manager at Amazon's Frontier AI Robotics, you will lead the development of robust physical AI solutions for dynamic real-world environments.

You will leverage Amazon's vast computational resources to tackle ambitious problems in areas like very large multi-modal robotic foundation models and efficient, promptablemodel architectures that can scale across diverse robotic applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the ML infrastructure team to create a model training and simulation environment for developing large robotics foundational models for reasoning, perception, locomotion, and manipulation.

• Collaborate with AI researchers to implement and optimize training of new model architectures at a large scale.

• Define the roadmap and build a physics realistic simulation environment for reinforcement learning, closed-loop simulations, and synthetic data generation.

• Implement tooling for data creation, model experimentation, and continuous integration.

About the Team

The Frontier AI & Robotics team is reimagining robotics from the ground up.

We're building the future of intelligent robotics through frontier foundation models and end-to-end learned systems.

Our work spans the full spectrum of robotics intelligence – from multimodal perception using images, videos, and sensor data to sophisticated manipulation strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios.

We leverage Amazon's massive computational infrastructure and rich real-world datasets to train and deploy state-of-the-art foundation models.

Our team is passionate about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotics and working with world-class researchers.

We're looking for experienced professionals who share our vision and are excited about the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects.

If you have a strong background in software development, leadership, and machine learning, we encourage you to apply.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience

• 5+ years of engineering team management experience

• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects, and development teams in an Agile environment

• Proficiency in Python and C++, experience in building large-scale training infrastructure using PyTorch

• Experience with Isaac Sim, Unity, Unreal, or proprietary 3D game engine, or industry-equivalent technology (3D animation, simulation, etc.)

• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing, and delivering infrastructure software

• Experience partnering with product or program management science teams working in research environments