Applied Scientist, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)

Join the next revolution in robotics at Amazons Frontier AI & Robotics team where youll work alongside world-renowned AI pioneers to push the boundaries of whats possible in robotic intelligence. As an Applied Scientist youll be at the forefront of developing breakthrough foundation models that enable robots to perceive understand and interact with the world in unprecedented ways. Youll drive independent research initiatives in areas such as locomotion manipulation sim2real transfer multi-modal 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 youll balance innovative technical exploration with practical implementation collaborating with platform teams to ensure your models and algorithms perform robustly in dynamic real-world environments. Youll have access to Amazons 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 robot co-design dexterous manipulation mechanisms innovative actuation strategies state estimation low-level control system identification reinforcement learning and sim-to-real transfer as well as foundation models for perception and manipulation
- Lead full-stack robotics projects from conceptualization through deployment taking a system-level approach that integrates hardware considerations with algorithmic development
- Develop and optimize control algorithms and sensing pipelines that enable robust performance in production environments
- Collaborate with platform and hardware teams to ensure seamless integration across the entire robotics stack
- Contribute to the teams technical strategy and help shape our approach to next-generation robotics challenges

A day in the life
- Design and implement innovative systems and algorithms leveraging our extensive infrastructure to prototype 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 prototype 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 were not just advancing robotics were reimagining it from the ground up. Our team is building the future of intelligent robotics through ground breaking 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 Amazons 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. Were building systems that dont just work in the lab but scale to meet the demands of Amazons global operations.

Join us if youre excited about pushing the boundaries of whats possible in robotics working with world-class researchers and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.


- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of ME EE CS CE or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience with hardware design low-level control state estimation system identification or complex electrical systems
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
- Experience developing and implementing deep learning models
- Track record of solving complex technical problems


- Experience using Unix/Linux
- First-author publications at major or top-tier ML / robotics conferences (RSS CoRL NeurIPS ICML ICLR CVPR ICCV ICRA IROS)
- Background in computer vision robotics 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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