Senior Applied Scientist, Robot Navigation & Autonomy

Amazon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks a Senior Applied Scientist focused on robot navigation to research and develop advanced navigation systems for autonomous robots in dynamic environments. You will explore classical methods, learning-based techniques, and foundation models to build robust navigation solutions.

You will collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, publish in top venues, mentor junior scientists, and drive projects from concept to real-world deployment while staying at the

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree with 6+ years of applied research experience
• 3+ years of industry or academic research 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
• Experience with sim-to-real transfer for robotic systems
• Demonstrated track record of leading technical projects
• Experience mentoring junior scientists/engineers

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement robust navigation systems for autonomous operation in dynamic indoor environments with obstacles
• Build simulation-based and on-device evaluation frameworks with benchmarks and metrics
• Conduct sim-to-real transfer experiments and analyze performance gaps
• Collaborate with world model, manipulation, and other teams to integrate navigation into the robot system
• Stay current with advances in robot navigation and related fields and apply findings to improve performance
• Mentor fellow scientists and engineers while making strong individual technical contributions

Skills

Publication record

Mentoring

Project leadership

Python

C++

Sim-to-real transfer

Education

PhD

Master's degree

Tools

Python

C++

Job description

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, seeks a Senior Applied Scientist focused on robot navigation to research and develop advanced navigation systems for autonomous robots in dynamic environments. You will explore classical methods, learning-based techniques, and foundation models to build robust navigation solutions.

You will collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, publish in top venues, mentor junior scientists, and drive projects from concept to real-world deployment while staying at the