Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics Job at Amazon.com Services LLC, Seattle, WA

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  • Amazon.com Services LLC
  • Seattle, WA

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Do you want to create worldwide impact in robotics while solving challenges at the edge of robotics research? Our collaborative team in Amazon Robotics builds high-performance, real-time robotic systems that can perceive, learn, and act intelligently alongside humans—at Amazon scale. Our mission is to create robots that perform contact-rich tasks safely, efficiently, and dexterously amid the complexity and variety of Amazon warehouses. Our solutions learn from their own experiences, from each other, and from humans to build intelligence that feeds itself.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Applied Scientist to join our Motion Planning and Control team. In this role, you will leverage your experience and insights gained from delivering systems to lead us in developing products that are both innovative and scalable. Collaborating with a world-class team of experts in motion planning, control theory, computer vision, machine learning, and robotic hardware design, you will apply the latest research trends to tackle complex real-world challenges. Together, we aim to achieve high-impact algorithmic advancements in areas such as scene and activity understanding, closed-loop control, robotic grasping, and manipulation in high-contact environments - each of which carries significant value for our current and future fulfillment networks.

Key job responsibilities
• Research, design, implement and evaluate complex motion planning, controls, and decision-making algorithms that improve the performance of systems deployed in real-world conditions.
• Apply recent advances in topics such as planning optimization, model-based controllers, or grasp affordance learning to our systems in the lab and in the field.
• Lead major initiatives, mentor more junior scientists, and raise the bar for applying science to scalable robotic products.
• Work closely with software engineers to drive scalable, real-time implementations.
• Collaborate with experts across disciplines including perception, hardware and software to create intelligent, integrated systems and solutions.
• Represent Amazon in academia community through publications and scientific presentations.
• Work with stakeholders across hardware, science, and operations teams to iterate on systems design and implementation.

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- 5+ years of relevant broad industry or academic applied research experience post PhD in developing algorithms for robotic motion planning, perception, control, and decision-making.

Job Tags

Full time, Temporary work, Seasonal work, Worldwide,

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