Senior Software Developer - Amazon Robotics , Autonomous Mobility at Amazon
Denver, CO
$168,100–$227,400from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Denver, CO
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Software Engineer role on Amazon Robotics' perception and localization team, building autonomy software for Proteus, Amazon's fully autonomous warehouse robot. Day-to-day work spans sensor fusion, SLAM, machine-learning-based perception, hardware-accelerated algorithm optimization, and developer tooling for replay, visualization, and resource monitoring on embedded compute platforms.
Senior level · 5+ years · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 130 people in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 100–170
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $169,742 (middle half $134,780–$187,781). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (4)
The posting lists two locations — North Reading, MA and Denver, CO — with identical salary bands ($168,100–$227,400/year). The CBSA is reported as Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (the metro containing North Reading); Denver, CO (CBSA 19740) is an equally valid primary location.
All concrete technology skills (C++, Python, ROS, CUDA, AWS) appear exclusively under 'Preferred Qualifications', so all are marked preferred. The Basic Qualifications name no specific technologies — only general software development experience and design/architecture leadership.
The robotics domain areas called out (perception, localization, sensor fusion, computer vision, SLAM, machine learning for robotics) are described as experience domains rather than named tools, so they are not emitted as discrete skills per extraction rules.
The posting's application deadline of Aug 1, 2026 is unusually far out; this may indicate a long-running or evergreen requisition.
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