Description
Join the next revolution in robotics at Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team, where you'll work alongside world-renowned AI pioneers to push the boundaries of what's possible in robotic intelligence. As an Applied Scientist, you'll be at the forefront of developing breakthrough foundation models that enable robots to perceive, understand, and interact with the world in unprecedented ways. You'll drive independent research initiatives in areas such as perception, manipulation, science understanding, locomotion, manipulation, sim2real transfer, multi-modal foundation models and multi-task robot learning, designing novel frameworks that bridge the gap between state-of-the-art research and real-world deployment at Amazon scale.
In this role, you'll balance innovative technical exploration with practical implementation, collaborating with platform teams to ensure your models and algorithms perform robustly in dynamic real-world environments. You'll have access to Amazon's vast computational resources, enabling you to tackle ambitious problems in areas like very large multi-modal robotic foundation models and efficient, promptable model architectures that can scale across diverse robotic applications.
Key job responsibilities
Drive independent research initiatives across the robotics stack, including robotics foundation models, focusing on breakthrough approaches in perception, and manipulation, for example open-vocabulary panoptic scene understanding, scaling up multi-modal LLMs, sim2real/real2sim techniques, end-to-end vision-language-action models, efficient model inference, video tokenization
Design and implement novel deep learning architectures that push the boundaries of what robots can understand and accomplish
Lead full-stack robotics projects from conceptualization through deployment, taking a system-level approach that integrates hardware considerations with algorithmic development, ensuring robust performance in production environments
Collaborate with platform and hardware teams to ensure seamless integration across the entire robotics stack, optimizing and scaling models for real-world applications
Contribute to the team's technical strategy and help shape our approach to next-generation robotics challenges
A day in the life
Design and implement novel foundation model architectures and innovative systems and algorithms, leveraging our extensive infrastructure to proto@type and evaluate at scale
Collaborate with our world-class research team to solve complex technical challenges
Lead technical initiatives from conception to deployment, working closely with robotics engineers to integrate your solutions into production systems
Participate in technical discussions and brainstorming sessions with team leaders and fellow scientists
Leverage our massive compute cluster and extensive robotics infrastructure to rapidly proto@type and validate new ideas
Transform theoretical insights into practical solutions that can handle the complexities of real-world robotics applications
About the team
At Frontier AI & Robotics, we're not just advancing robotics - we're reimagining it from the ground up. Our team is building the future of intelligent robotics through innovative foundation models and end-to-end learned systems. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics, from developing sophisticated perception systems to creating adaptive manipulation strategies that work in complex, real-world scenarios.
What sets us apart is our unique combination of ambitious research vision and practical impact. We leverage Amazon's massive computational infrastructure and rich real-world datasets to train and deploy state-of-the-art foundation models. Our work spans the full spectrum of robotics intelligence - from multimodal perception using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated manipulation strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We're building systems that don't just work in the lab, but scale to meet the demands of Amazon's global operations.
Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotics, working with world-class researchers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.
Basic Qualifications
PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
Experience developing and implementing deep learning models
Track record of solving complex technical problems
Preferred Qualifications
Experience using Unix/Linux
First-author publications at major or top-tier ML/Robotics/AI conferences
Experience with foundation models or large language models
Background in Robotics, computer vision, or related fields
Experience with sim2real transfer or multi-task learning
Familiarity with distributed training systems
Track record of deploying ML models in production environments
Experience with large-scale robotic systems
Extensive programming skills in Python and PyTorch/JAX
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, CA, San Francisco - 171,600.00 - 222,200.00 USD annually
