Applied Scientist: Robotics Foundation Models & AI

Amazon Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Robotics is seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to join our Foundation Models and Agentic AI team, shaping robotics through large vision-language-action models, reasoning and task planning, and reinforcement learning. You will advance models that generalize across tasks and integrate multi-modal sensing to enable smarter robots.

The ideal candidate will bridge theory and practice, collaborating with senior scientists and engineers to deploy research at scale across our facilities and

Qualifications

• PhD in CS, ML, engineering or related field.
• Publications in top-tier venues.
• Proficient in Java, C++, Python.
• Master's degree.
• Experience applying ML in business contexts.

Responsibilities

• Model development and training of foundation models.
• Data management and reusable data pipelines.
• Experimentation and validation on simulator and embodiment.
• Code development and APIs for model evaluation/testing.
• Research staying current with foundation models and robotics.
• Collaborate with senior scientists and engineers across teams.

Skills

Publications in top-tier conferences

Programming in Java/C++/Python

Experience building ML models/algorith

Education

PhD in computer science / ML / engineering

Master's degree

Job description

Amazon Robotics is seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to join our Foundation Models and Agentic AI team, shaping robotics through large vision-language-action models, reasoning and task planning, and reinforcement learning. You will advance models that generalize across tasks and integrate multi-modal sensing to enable smarter robots.

The ideal candidate will bridge theory and practice, collaborating with senior scientists and engineers to deploy research at scale across our facilities and