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Senior Software Engineer, Fauna

at Amazon.com

📍 US, NY, New York Unknown Posted April 14, 2026
Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years 5+ years
Education Bachelor's degree or above in robotics, mechanical/mechatronics engineering, systems engineering or related field
Category Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer for Fauna Robotics (Amazon) to drive architecture and delivery of robotic software systems. The role owns end-to-end software development from design through production deployment and helps accelerate development with production-grade SDKs and tooling.

  • Drive architecture and design decisions for robotic software systems (perception, navigation, motor control, reasoning, human-robot interaction)
  • Own end-to-end delivery from design through production deployment and operational excellence
  • Lead collaboration across research, machine learning, hardware, and operations teams
  • Define technical roadmaps and drive innovation, including production-level SDKs for developer use
  • Design and implement systems and tools that accelerate development velocity for multi-disciplinary engineering teams

Responsibilities cover robotic software architecture across perception, navigation, motor control, reasoning, and human-robot interaction. Requires expertise in system design, design patterns, reliability and scaling, and building tools/SDKs that improve velocity for multi-disciplinary teams.

The ideal candidate is a Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of professional software development and at least 5 years leading system design/architecture for reliability and scaling. They have deep experience in robotic software areas (perception, navigation, motor control, reasoning, and human-robot interaction) and have led end-to-end production deployment with strong technical leadership and mentoring experience.

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patternsreliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experienceExperience as a mentortech lead or leading an engineering teamKnowledge of data structuresalgorithm designstatisticsand system designExperience leading the designbuild and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in productionExperience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical / architectural trade-offsbest practicesand risk mitigation
software developmentrobotic software systemsperceptionnavigationmotor controlreasoninghuman-robot interactionsystem architecturedesign patternsreliability and scalingend-to-end deliveryproduction deploymentoperational excellencetechnical roadmapsproduction-level SDKsmulti-disciplinary engineering teamsdata structuresalgorithm designstatisticssystem designmentoringtech leadrisk mitigationtechnical trade-offs
software developmentrobotic software systemsperceptionnavigationmotor controlreasoninghuman-robot interactionsystem architecturedesign patternsreliability and scalingend-to-end deliveryproduction deploymentoperational excellencetechnical roadmapsproduction-level SDKssoftware toolsdevelopment velocitymulti-disciplinary engineering teamsdata structuresalgorithm designstatisticssystem designmentoringtechnical leadershipfacilitating discussions with senior leadershiptechnical trade-offsrisk mitigationrobotics
mentoringtech lead / engineering team leadershipcollaborationcross-team communicationfacilitating discussionsrisk mitigation communicationstakeholder management
Industry Aerospace
Job Function Architect and deliver production-ready robotic software systems for robot autonomy and human interaction.
Role Subtype Software Architect
Tech Domains AI & Machine Learning, System Administration, Cybersecurity, Engineering (Non-Software), Cloud & Infrastructure, Python, Amazon Web Services
Senior Software EngineerSoftware EngineerFaunaFauna RoboticsAmazon companyrobotic software systemsperceptionnavigationmotor controlreasoninghuman-robot interactionend-to-end deliveryproduction deploymentoperational excellencemachine learningresearchroboticsrobotic software developmentproduction-level SDKsdeveloper usemulti-disciplinary engineering teamssystem designdesign patternsreliabilityscalingdata structuresalgorithm designstatisticsrisk mitigationtechnical trade-offsmentortech lead

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience, 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling), Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical / architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation

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