Lead Human-Robot Interaction Scientist

Alternance Amazon; New York (NY); Vor Ort; USD 184.000 - 249.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health insurance

RSUs

Sign-on bonus

Paid time off

Parental leave

Zusammenfassung

Amazon.com Services LLC seeks an HRI Applied Scientist to advance conversational and social interaction capabilities for robots, focusing on verbal and non-verbal communication, memory, and long-term user relationships. You will lead projects, mentor engineers, and bridge research with practical robotic deployments.

We expect a PhD or equivalent, strong publication history, and extensive Python and PyTorch/JAX programming experience.

Qualifikationen

• PhD or equivalent research experience, or a Master’s with 6+ years of experience.
• 3+ years of industry or academic research experience.
• Strong publication record at major HRI/ML/AI/HCI conferences.
• Experience programming in Python.
• Experience mentoring junior scientists/engineers.

Aufgaben

• Develop interactive systems that leverage LLMs, multimodal inputs and outputs, RLHF or other advanced techniques for fluid, socially appropriate robot behavior.
• Design and implement intelligent conversational systems with turn-taking and grounded context from a robot’s environment and user history.
• Integrate perceptual sensor streams (gaze, facial expression, gesture, posture) to understand social context and produce lifelike interactions.
• Develop memory and personalization systems to form lasting relationships with users and adapt behavior over time.
• Stay updated on HRI, NLP, multimodal AI, and cognitive/social science to apply techniques to robot interaction challenges.
• Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment.
• Mentor junior scientists and engineers.
• Bridge research initiatives with practical engineering implementation.

Kenntnisse

Python

PyTorch/JAX

Publications

Mentoring

Project leadership

Dialogue systems

Ausbildung

PhD or equivalent

Master's with 6+ years

Tools

Python

PyTorch

JAX

Jobbeschreibung

Amazon.com Services LLC seeks an HRI Applied Scientist to advance conversational and social interaction capabilities for robots, focusing on verbal and non-verbal communication, memory, and long-term user relationships. You will lead projects, mentor engineers, and bridge research with practical robotic deployments.

We expect a PhD or equivalent, strong publication history, and extensive Python and PyTorch/JAX programming experience.