Senior Applied Scientist, Robotics Foundation Models

Amazon; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 192 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Amazon.com Services LLC in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to develop and improve machine learning systems that help robots perceive, reason, and act in real-world environments. You will leverage state-of-the-art models (open source and internal research), evaluate them on representative tasks, and adapt/optimize them to meet robustness, safety, and performance needs.

You will collaborate closely with research, controls, hardware, and product-facing teams, and your outputs

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business applications.
• PhD, or Master’s degree with 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• 2+ years hands-on experience in deep learning with strength in CV, multimodal models, imitation learning / RL for robotics, or human-robot interaction.
• Ability to design rigorous experiments, analyze results, and iterate quickly with reproducible baselines.
• Demonstrated technical contributions (publications, patents, open-source, or impactful internal systems).

Responsabilités

• Leverage state-of-the-art models for targeted tasks, environments, and robot embodiments through fine-tuning and optimization.
• Execute rapid, rigorous experimentation with reproducible results and solid engineering practices.
• Build and run capability evaluations/benchmarks to clearly profile performance, generalization, and failure modes.
• Contribute to the data and training workflow: collection/curation, dataset quality/provenance, and repeatable training recipes.
• Write clean, maintainable, well commented and documented code, contribute to training infrastructure, create tools for model evaluation and testing, and implement necessary APIs
• Stay current with latest developments in foundation models and robotics, assist in literature reviews and research documentation, prepare technical reports and presentations, and contribute to research discussions and brainstorming sessions.
• Work closely with senior scientists, engineers, and leaders across multiple teams, participate in knowledge sharing, support integration efforts with robotics hardware teams, and help document best practices and methodologies.

Connaissances

ML model building

Java

C++

Python

Deep learning

Experiment design

Publications/patents/open-source

Formation

PhD

Master’s degree + 6 years applied research

Outils

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

numpy

scipy

Description du poste

Amazon.com Services LLC in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to develop and improve machine learning systems that help robots perceive, reason, and act in real-world environments. You will leverage state-of-the-art models (open source and internal research), evaluate them on representative tasks, and adapt/optimize them to meet robustness, safety, and performance needs.

You will collaborate closely with research, controls, hardware, and product-facing teams, and your outputs