Sr. Software Development Manager, Frontier AI Robotics jobs in United States
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Amazon · 18 hours ago

Sr. Software Development Manager, Frontier AI Robotics

positionSeattle, WA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$198K/yr - $342K/yr
date10+ years exp

Amazon is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Senior Software Development Manager for their Frontier AI Robotics team. In this role, the candidate will lead the ML infrastructure team to develop robust AI solutions for robotics applications, collaborating with researchers to optimize model training and simulation environments.

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Responsibilities

You will lead the ML infrastructure team to create model training and simulation environment for developing large robotics foundational models for reasoning, perception, locomotion, and manipulation
Work together with AI researchers to implement and optimize training of new model architectures at a large scale
Define roadmap and build physics realistic simulation environment for reinforcement learning, closed-loop simulations and synthetic data generation
Implement tooling for data creation, model experimentation, and continuous integration

Qualification

PythonC++PyTorchAgile managementIsaac SimUnityUnreal Engine3D simulationReinforcement learningSynthetic data generationTeam managementProject managementCommunicationProblem-solving

Required

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

Preferred

Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
Experience with physical robots, reinforcement learning, synthetic data generation. Experience optimizing physics simulation for articulated robots and rigid body interactions
Deep understanding of different model architecture like VLM, Imitation learning, VLA
Experience implementing techniques from research papers

Benefits

Equity
Sign-on payments
Medical
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Other benefits

Company

Amazon

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Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
dateFounded in 1994
location
Seattle, Washington, USA
people-size10001+ employees
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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$8.11B
Key Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO

Leadership Team

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Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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Werner Vogels
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