Amazon · 4 days ago
Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Industrial Robotics
Middlesex County, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $260K/yr
5+ years expAmazon Industrial Robotics is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. The Senior Applied Scientist will develop innovative and scalable solutions in motion planning and feedback controls for complex robotic systems, collaborating with experts to innovate and solve real-world problems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceRetail
Responsibilities
Conduct research, design, implement, and assess feedback control and motion planning algorithms, ensuring integration across various disciplines
Develop experiments and build prototypes to implement control algorithms, planners, and optimization techniques
Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to ensure scalable, real-time implementation of algorithms
Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to deploy algorithms from initial prototyping to production-level implementation
Engage with stakeholders across hardware, scientific, and operational teams to iterate on system design and implementation
Qualification
Required
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
5+ years of industry or academic research experience
Experience in building machine learning models for business application
5+ years of industry or academic research experience in applied research and development in robotics, with a focus on motion planning and feedback controls
Preferred
Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc
Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc
Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Proven ability to innovate and develop robust and scalable solutions to complex robotics problems
Experience in trajectory optimization for multi-degree-of-freedom (multi-DOF) robotic systems
Experience in designing controllers using Model Predictive Control, Optimal Control, etc
Experience in developing and deploying reinforcement learning algorithms in real-world robotics applications
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
Kleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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