Robotics Research Engineer - Manipulation & Learning

Amazon; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Frontier AI Robotics team is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to advance robot manipulation and learning, focusing on real2sim2real pipelines, large-scale data, and reinforcement learning. You will design learning algorithms and integrate vision, tactile sensing, and proprioception to push toward human-level performance.

Join world-class researchers as your work scales across Amazon's global infrastructure, turning cutting-edge research into deployable robotics capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Learning manipulation: Design and implement robot learning algorithms for manipulation.
• Leverage vision models to extract 3D hand‑object manipulation information from real‑world situations.
• Develop large‑scale real2sim2real pipeline for manipulation.
• Multimodal Sensor Fusion: Integrate tactile sensing, proprioception and vision into the learning pipeline.

Skills

Robot manipulation

Reinforcement learning

Vision models

Leadership / mentoring

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon's Frontier AI Robotics team is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to advance robot manipulation and learning, focusing on real2sim2real pipelines, large-scale data, and reinforcement learning. You will design learning algorithms and integrate vision, tactile sensing, and proprioception to push toward human-level performance.

Join world-class researchers as your work scales across Amazon's global infrastructure, turning cutting-edge research into deployable robotics capabilities.