Lead Research Scientist – Safe Autonomy for Dynamic Robots

Socket.dev; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) Plan

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon’s SAF Lab seeks a Research Science Manager to lead a world‑class team of scientists, engineers, post‑docs and interns, shaping the safety layer for dynamic robotic systems and ensuring innovations translate into production at scale.

You will drive technical vision, research strategy, and collaborate across autonomous robots teams to push frontiers in safe autonomy, including control barrier functions integrated with perception and learning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• PhD in Engineering, Technology, Science, Operations Research, Robotics, Mathematics, or related fields, or Master's degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of scientists and engineers developing a universal safety layer for robotic systems, with a focus on the next generation of robots.
• Work with leadership to design and execute multi‑year research roadmaps for the development of safe autonomy that spans all types of current and emerging robotic platforms.
• Lead Scientists, Engineers, post‑docs and interns to realize research and development goals and provide evidence of these results in a variety of formats.
• Drive integration of control barrier functions with planning, perception and learning while maintaining guarantees of safe high‑performance robot behavior.
• Collaborate with product teams and science leaders to set a science roadmap (with eventual impact on real robots).
• Publish research findings at top‑tier conferences and contribute to the broader robotics community.
• Build relationships with academic and industry partners to stay at the forefront of safe autonomy.

Education

Bachelor's degree

PhD in Engineering, Technology, Science, Operations Research, Robotics, Mathematics, or related fields, or Master's degree

Job description

Amazon’s SAF Lab seeks a Research Science Manager to lead a world‑class team of scientists, engineers, post‑docs and interns, shaping the safety layer for dynamic robotic systems and ensuring innovations translate into production at scale.

You will drive technical vision, research strategy, and collaborate across autonomous robots teams to push frontiers in safe autonomy, including control barrier functions integrated with perception and learning.