Senior Applied Scientist- Robotics/AI Motor , Fauna

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is seeking a Robotics/AI Motor Control Scientist to develop cutting-edge machine learning algorithms for motor control in robots. You will focus on creating and optimizing intelligent strategies to enable fluid, safe, and adaptive robot motion in complex environments.

You will collaborate with hardware and software teams, lead projects from idea to deployment, and mentor junior researchers as you push the boundaries of reinforcement learning, imitation

Responsibilities

• Develop controllers that leverage reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or other advanced AI techniques to achieve natural, robust motor behaviors
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to integrate motor control systems with robotic hardware, ensuring alignment with real-world constraints such as actuator dynamics and energy efficiency
• Use simulation and real-world testing to refine and validate control algorithms
• Stay updated on advancements in robotics, AI, and control systems to apply advanced techniques to robotic motion challenges
• Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment
• Mentor junior scientists and engineers
• Bridge research initiatives with practical engineering implementation

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Imitation learning

Robotics

Machine learning

Control systems

Python

C++

Job description

Description

We are seeking a Robotics/AI Motor Control Scientist to develop cutting-edge machine learning algorithms for motor control systems in robots. In this role, you will focus on creating and optimizing intelligent motor control strategies to enable robots to perform complex, whole-body tasks. Your contributions will be essential in advancing robotics by enabling fluid, reliable, and safe interactions between robots and their environments.

Key job responsibilities

• - Develop controllers that leverage reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or other advanced AI techniques to achieve natural, robust, and adaptive motor behaviors
• - Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to integrate motor control systems with robotic hardware, ensuring alignment with real-world constraints such as actuator dynamics and energy efficiency
• - Use simulation and real-world testing to refine and validate control algorithms
• - Stay updated on advancements in robotics, AI, and control systems to apply advanced techniques to robotic motion challenges
• - Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment
• - Mentor junior scientists and engineers
• - Bridge research initiatives with practical engineering implementation

About the team

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces. We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products. Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful.

At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you. an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you.