Software Development Engineer, Localization - Amazon Scout Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Are you inspired by building new technologies to benefit customers? Do you dream of being at the forefront of and autonomous system technology? Would you enjoy working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, start-up like environment? If you answered yes to any of these then you've got to check out the Amazon Scout team.

We've been hard at work developing a new, fully-electric delivery system - Amazon Scout - designed to get packages to customers using autonomous delivery devices. These devices were created by Amazon, are the size of a small cooler, and roll along sidewalks at a walking pace. We developed Amazon Scout at our research and development lab in Seattle, ensuring the devices can safely and efficiently navigate around pets, pedestrians and anything else in their .

The Amazon Scout team shares a passion for innovation using advanced technologies, a love of solving complex challenges, and a desire to impact customers in a meaningful way. We're looking for individuals who like dealing with ambiguity, solving hard, large scale problems, and working in a startup like environment. To learn more about Amazon Scout, check out our Amazon Day One Blog post here: http://amazon.com/scout

As a Software Development Engineer for the localization team, you have the chance to help develop cutting-edge robotic technology by applying computer vision and machine learning to robotics.

In this job you will:

* Collaborate with top-notch research scientists, development engineers and hardware engineers to build high-quality production code
* Develop the core including defining, scoping and launching a highly impactful new service
* Investigate, prototype and deliver innovative system solutions in a start-up like environment
* Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software

You are a person with a commitment to team work, who enjoys working on complex systems, is customer centric, and thrives on the challenge of prototyping new systems that will eventually operate at Amazon scale.