Autonomous Lab Robotics Scientist — Physical AI

Amazon Science; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Science in Seattle is seeking a robotics scientist to build and operate the first autonomous materials discovery laboratory. You will design autonomous workflows that integrate dexterous robotic platforms, analytical instruments, and AI-driven hypothesis generation into a closed-loop discovery pipeline.

This role requires strong AI and robotics foundations, will involve real hardware and deployment pipelines, and aims to produce measurable sustainability impacts through material discovery.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.

Responsibilities

• Develop, train, and benchmark robotic manipulation policies for materials synthesis and characterization using modern policy architectures.
• Design and execute sim-to-real transfer strategies including domain randomization.
• Integrate robotic platforms and laboratory instruments into automated workflows via APIs.
• Architect policy training pipelines combining teleoperation data, synthetic demonstrations, RL and imitation learning.
• Build production-grade agentic runtime systems for unattended experimental sessions.
• Design and execute autonomous experimental campaigns applying active learning or Bayesian optimization.
• Drive technical design reviews and set scientific direction for the autonomous lab platform.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Algorithms

Data structures

Numerical optimization

Data mining

Parallel computing

Distributed computing

High-performance computing

Education

PhD or Master's in CS/CE/ML

Tools

Unix/Linux

Job description

Amazon Science in Seattle is seeking a robotics scientist to build and operate the first autonomous materials discovery laboratory. You will design autonomous workflows that integrate dexterous robotic platforms, analytical instruments, and AI-driven hypothesis generation into a closed-loop discovery pipeline.

This role requires strong AI and robotics foundations, will involve real hardware and deployment pipelines, and aims to produce measurable sustainability impacts through material discovery.