Amazon · 1 week ago
Sr. Applied Scientist, FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics)
San Francisco, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$192K/yr - $260K/yr
6+ years expAmazon is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join their Frontier AI & Robotics team, where they will work on developing breakthrough foundation models and full-stack robotics systems. The role involves leading technical initiatives, mentoring fellow scientists, and collaborating with teams to ensure robust solutions for real-world applications.
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Responsibilities
Lead technical initiatives across the robotics stack, driving breakthrough approaches through hands-on research and development in areas 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
Guide technical direction for 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
Mentor fellow scientists while maintaining strong individual technical contributions
Collaborate with platform and hardware teams to ensure seamless integration across the entire robotics stack
Influence technical decisions and implementation strategies within your area of focus
Design and implement novel foundation model architectures and innovative systems and algorithms, leveraging our extensive infrastructure to prototype and evaluate at scale
Guide fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges across the full robotics stack
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 and extensive robotics infrastructure
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
3+ years of industry or academic research experience
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
Strong publication record at major or top-tier Robotics/ML/AI conferences
Demonstrated track record of leading technical projects
Experience mentoring junior scientists/engineers
Demonstrated expertise in deep learning and robotics system development
Preferred
History of impactful first-author publications at major conferences
Experience leading research initiatives in full-stack robotics or foundation models
Track record of successful production robotics deployments
Experience with large-scale distributed systems
History of technical leadership and team mentorship
Experience bridging research with practical engineering implementation in robotics systems
Extensive programming skills in Python and PyTorch/JAX
Benefits
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
Parental leave
Company
Amazon
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
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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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