Autonomous Robot Navigation Scientist

Amazon Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks an Applied Scientist to advance robot navigation. You will research and develop autonomous navigation systems for complex indoor environments, from classical to learning-based methods, and participate in end-to-end robotic platform integration.

You will mentor scientists while delivering robust, evaluated solutions and collaborating across teams to push the frontier of safe, reliable robot movement in real-world settings.

Qualifications

• 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 any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement robust navigation systems that enable reliable autonomous operation in complex, dynamic indoor environments with static and dynamic obstacles
• Build simulation-based and on-device evaluation frameworks with comprehensive benchmarks and metrics for systematic comparison of navigation methods
• Conduct sim-to-real transfer experiments, analyzing performance gaps and developing techniques to ensure reliable real-world navigation performance
• Collaborate with world model, manipulation, and other teams to ensure seamless integration of navigation capabilities into the full robot system
• Stay current with the latest advances in robot navigation, spatial reasoning, and related fields, and apply relevant findings to improve system performance
• Mentor fellow scientists and engineers while maintaining strong individual technical contributions

Skills

PhD or Master''s with 4+ years CS/CE//

Java/C++/Python

Patents or publications

Education

PhD

Master''s degree

Tools

Unix/Linux

Software development

Job description

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks an Applied Scientist to advance robot navigation. You will research and develop autonomous navigation systems for complex indoor environments, from classical to learning-based methods, and participate in end-to-end robotic platform integration.

You will mentor scientists while delivering robust, evaluated solutions and collaborating across teams to push the frontier of safe, reliable robot movement in real-world settings.