Lead Applied Scientist — Robotics SLAM & Reconstruction

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 192,200 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks an Applied Scientist to advance SLAM, localization, mapping, and geometric reconstruction for home environments. You will develop robust state estimation, pose tracking, and world reconstruction while evaluating with simulations and on-robot tests to enable autonomous decision making and navigation.

You will lead projects, mentor junior scientists, and collaborate with navigation and manipulation teams to integrate localization, tracking, and

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree with 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and delivering key results.
• 6+ years of Localization and Mapping experience.
• Strong publication record at major Robotics/ML/AI conferences (e.g., RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).
• Experience programming in Python, C++, or related language.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement robust robot state estimation, pose estimation, mapping, and reconstruction algorithms.
• Build simulation-based and on-robot evaluation frameworks with benchmarks and metrics for systematic evaluation of our spatial intelligence stack.
• Lead scientific and technical projects across the spatial intelligence team.
• Collaborate with navigation, manipulation, and other teams to ensure seamless integration of localization, tracking, and mapping capabilities.
• Mentor junior scientists and engineers to solve real-world robotics problems.

Skills

Robot localization

SLAM

State estimation

Python

C++

Publications

Education

PhD or Master's degree

Tools

Python

C++

Job description

Amazon's Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks an Applied Scientist to advance SLAM, localization, mapping, and geometric reconstruction for home environments. You will develop robust state estimation, pose tracking, and world reconstruction while evaluating with simulations and on-robot tests to enable autonomous decision making and navigation.

You will lead projects, mentor junior scientists, and collaborate with navigation and manipulation teams to integrate localization, tracking, and