Applied Scientist, Fauna

We are seeking an Applied Scientist to focus on Robotics Spatial Intelligence and Semantic this role youll research and build advanced semantic and world understanding algorithms that enable robots to observe understand and reason about complex and dynamic home environments. Youll work across a broad spectrum of 3D perception contextual understanding and world modeling approaches to build robust solutions that support autonomous decision making task planning navigation and manipulation.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop and implement robust World Understanding and Modeling algorithms for a domestic robot.
- Build simulation-based and on-robot evaluation frameworks with comprehensive benchmarks and metrics for systematic evaluation of Our Spatial Intelligence stack.
- Conduct sim-to-real transfer experiments analyzing performance gaps and developing techniques to ensure reliable real-world performance.
- Collaborate with navigation manipulation and other teams to ensure seamless integration of World Understanding capabilities.
- Stay current with the latest advances in World Modeling Spatial Reasoning and related fields and apply relevant findings to improve system performance


About the team
Fauna Robotics an Amazon company is building capable safe and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.
We believe that future wont arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. Were changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster safer and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.
Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design control systems dynamic modeling and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality but experience. Were building robots that feel responsive expressive and genuinely useful.
At Fauna youll work at the frontier of this space helping define how robots move manipulate and interact with people in natural environments. Its an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.
If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable were interested in hearing from you.

- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- 4 years of industry or academic research experience
- Experience leading technical initiatives and key deliverables
- Strong publication record at major Robotics/ML/AI conferences (e.g. RSS CoRL ICRA IROS NeurIPS ICML ICLR)
- Experience programming in Python Cor related language

- History of impactful first-author publications at major journals or conferences
- Experience bridging research with practical engineering implementation in robotics systems
- Experience of working with World Models or Foundation Models applied to World Semantic Understanding problem

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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.

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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 Sunnyvale - 171600.00 - 222200.00 USD annually