Amazon · 2 days ago
Principal Applied Scientist, FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics)
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$179K/yr - $309K/yr
6+ years expAmazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to lead initiatives in robotic intelligence. In this role, you'll develop breakthrough foundation models and design novel algorithms that enable robots to perceive and interact with the world, while mentoring fellow scientists and collaborating with engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
Lead technical initiatives in robotics foundation models, driving breakthrough approaches through hands-on research and development in areas like 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
Guide technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments
Mentor and support fellow scientists while maintaining strong individual technical contributions
Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize and scale models for real-world applications
Influence technical decisions and implementation strategies within your area of focus
Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands-on with our extensive compute infrastructure
Guide and support fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from sim2real transfer to efficient multi-task learning
Lead focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems
Drive technical discussions within your team and with key stakeholders
Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas using our massive compute cluster
Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions
Qualification
Required
PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
5+ years of industry or academic research experience
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
5+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience
Experience in patents or publication at top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, RSS, CoRL)
Extensive track record of leading technical projects
Experience mentoring junior scientists / engineers
Demonstrated expertise in deep learning and model development
Preferred
Experience as first-author publications at major conferences
Experience leading research initiatives in robotics or foundation models
Track record of successful production ML deployments
Experience with large-scale distributed systems
Experience in technical leadership and team mentorship
Experience bridging research with practical engineering implementation
Benefits
Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
Maternity and Parental Leave Options
Paid Time Off (PTO)
401(k) Plan
Company
Amazon
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10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
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CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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VP & CTO
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