Postdoctoral Scientist

Amazon is looking for talented Postdoctoral Scientists to join our Frontier AI & Robotics team for a one-year full-time research position. Join the next revolution in robotics where youll work alongside world-renowned AI pioneers to push the boundaries of whats possible in robotic intelligence. As a Postdoctoral 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 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 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 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 teams 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 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 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 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 CS CE ML or related field experience
- Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD in a relevant field
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures parsing numerical optimization data mining parallel and distributed computing high-performance computing

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA San Francisco - 171600.00 - 222200.00 USD annually