Amazon · 10 hours ago
Applied Scientist, FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics)
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$172K/yr - $222K/yr
4+ years expAmazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team is seeking an Applied Scientist to lead research initiatives in robotics. The role involves developing innovative models and algorithms to enhance robotic intelligence and collaborating with teams to implement solutions at scale.
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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 team's technical strategy and help shape our approach to next-generation robotics challenges
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
Qualification
Required
PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
Experience developing and implementing deep learning models
Track record of solving complex technical problems
Preferred
Experience using Unix/Linux
First-author publications at major or top-tier ML/Robotics/AI conferences
Experience with foundation models or large language models
Background in Robotics, computer vision, or related fields
Experience with sim2real transfer or multi-task learning
Familiarity with distributed training systems
Track record of deploying ML models in production environments
Experience with large-scale robotic 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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