Applied Scientist II — Robotics Perception & Decision Systems

Amazon; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center Germany GmbH is seeking an experienced Applied Scientist for the Amazon Robotics team. You will apply cutting-edge research to real-world robotics and AI challenges, collaborating with scientists, engineers, and hardware teams to build end-to-end robotic systems.

You will design, implement and evaluate advanced perception, motion planning and decision-making algorithms, publish results, and contribute to scalable, real-time software and infrastructure used across the

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree in CS/CE/ML or related field.
• Experience building models for business applications.
• Publications or patents in top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, Python.
• Experience with algorithms, data structures, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel & distributed computing, HPC.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, implement and evaluate complex perception, motion planning, and decision making algorithms across disciplines.
• Create experiments and prototype implementations of new learning algorithms.
• Work with software engineering to drive scalable, real-time implementations.
• Collaborate with ML and robotics controls experts to deploy algorithms.
• Collaborate with hardware teams from prototyping to production level.
• Represent Amazon in academia via publications and presentations.
• Coordinate with stakeholders across hardware, science and operations to iterate on system design.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Algorithms

Data structures

Numerical optimization

Data mining

Parallel computing

Distributed computing

High-performance computing

Unix/Linux

Publications/patents

Education

PhD or Master’s in CS/CE/ML

Tools

Unix/Linux

Job description

Amazon Development Center Germany GmbH is seeking an experienced Applied Scientist for the Amazon Robotics team. You will apply cutting-edge research to real-world robotics and AI challenges, collaborating with scientists, engineers, and hardware teams to build end-to-end robotic systems.

You will design, implement and evaluate advanced perception, motion planning and decision-making algorithms, publish results, and contribute to scalable, real-time software and infrastructure used across the