Software Development Manager III, Relay Yard Automation, Relay Yard Automation

Amazon moves millions of packages daily through a global logistics network of Fulfillment Centers, Sort Centers, and Delivery Stations. Every facility has a trailer yard — the physical space where line-haul vehicles arrive, get loaded or unloaded, and depart. Tracking what's happening in these yards in real time (which trailers are where, what state they're in, who's arriving and departing) is a hard problem that sits at the intersection of physical operations and software systems. The Relay Yard Automation (RYA) team builds the software that manages these trailer yards across 6,000+ Amazon facilities on three continents. Our products handle 200K+ gate transactions per day and facilitated the arrival and departure of 55M vehicles last year. We integrate computer vision, RFID, GPS, ultrasonic sensors, and IoT edge devices to automate what were historically manual, associate-staffed processes, from gate check-in/check-out to in-yard trailer movements. Our gate automation program has alre...