Are you excited about building high-performance robotic systems that can perceive, learn, and act intelligently alongside humans? The Amazon Robotics team is creating new products and technologies that make this possible, at Amazon scale. In addition to designing, building, and delivering end-to-end robotic systems, our team is responsible for core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone of our robotic applications, enabling roboticists, machine learning scientists, and software engineers to collaborate and deploy systems in the lab and in the field. Key job responsibilities - As a manager, you will be responsible for delivering critical robotic capabilities. - You will manage across the science and engineering job families required to build these systems. - You will prioritize being a great people manager: motivating, rewarding, and coaching your diverse team is the most important part of this role. You will recruit and retain top talent and excel in day-to-day people and performance management tasks. - You will keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions. - You will regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises and drive technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues. - Set a vision for your team and create product roadmaps. Help your team sort out technical and product requirements and priorities. Use project management skills to deliver product roadmap items and other cross-team projects. Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field - Experience in solving complicated machine learning and/or robotics problems for automation tasks - Experience in designing, developing, and deploying enterprise solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Experience as a software developer in Java, Kotlin, C++ and/or Python - Ability to build and manage effectively a diverse, talented team of software engineers - Excellent communication skills, both written and oral with both technical and business people. Ability to speak at a level appropriate for the audience. - Ability to distill informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives Preferred Qualifications - PhD or MS in a robotics-related discipline - Experience shipping computer vision, machine learning or robotics products - Broad experience across Robotics including hardware, software, science, and machine learning - Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy - Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates. m/w/d