Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics

The Amazon Robotics team is seeking an experienced Applied Scientist to join our this role you will apply the latest trends in research to solve real-world problems in robotics and AI. You will collaborate with a team of scientists and engineers building these applications. We holistically design build and deliver end-to-end robotic systems. Our team is also responsible for core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone of our robotic applications enabling roboticists machine learning scientists software engineers and hardware engineers to collaborate and deploy systems in the field.

Key job responsibilities
Research design implement and evaluate complex perception motion planning and decision making algorithms integrating across multiple disciplines and leveraging machine learning.
Create experiments and prototype implementations of new learning algorithms and prediction techniques.
Work closely with software engineering team members to drive scalable real-time implementations.
Collaborate with machine learning and robotic controls experts to implement and deploy algorithms such as machine learning models.
Collaborate closely with hardware engineering team members on developing systems from prototyping to production level.
Represent Amazon in academia community through publications and scientific presentations.
Work with stakeholders across hardware science and operations teams to iterate on systems design and implementation.

About the team
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- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience in implementing state-of-the-art scene understanding and computer vision algorithms or robotic manipulation / motion planning approaches
- Experience in delivering customer-facing results in robotics
- Experience as a technical lead for an interdisciplinary team in computer vision and robotic manipulation areas
- Experience in publishing at major robotics and related conferences (e.g. RSS NIPS ICRA CVPR CORL ICCV) or journals (IJRR IEEE TRO JMLR).
- Experience mentoring/coaching junior team members and supporting their career growth

- PhD and relevant industry or academic research experience in developing algorithms for robotic computer vision and/or motion planning/control.
- Experience in large-scale data collection and CV/ML models that leverage scale in robotic products (e.g. large vision models transformers etc.)
- Experience in hardware trades (e.g. sensor selection) and diverse systems architectures (real-time embedded distributed etc.)
- Experience with interdisciplinary developments that involve hardware software and algorithm co-design.
- Experience in physics engines and transferring algorithms from simulation to real environments
- Experience with developing and maintaining software architectures for robotic systems
- Demonstrated experience incubating and productionizing new technology from idea generation through large-scale deployment.

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