Senior Research Scientist, Mobile Manipulation Robotics

Amazon; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Sign-on bonus

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Robotics is seeking a Research Scientist to advance mobile manipulation by developing learning-based approaches for navigating and manipulating objects in dynamic fulfillment environments. The role includes producing publishable research and translating findings into production systems at scale.

You will lead cross-functional efforts with scientists and engineers, design data pipelines, and contribute to shared training infrastructure while publishing in top venues.

Qualifications

• 3+ years investigating feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products
• PhD, or Master’s degree and 5+ years of quantitative field research experience
• 2+ years of designing experiments and statistical analysis of results
• Experience communicating complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)

Responsibilities

• Research and Algorithm Development: Formulate novel research problems in robot learning and manipulation, design new model architectures, validate hypotheses through rigorous experimentation, and advance the state of the art in learning-based robotics.
• Data Strategy and Pipeline Design: Define data requirements for research initiatives, design scalable collection and curation strategies, establish governance and provenance standards, and build reusable pipelines ensuring data quality and reproducibility.
• Experimentation and Scientific Validation: Design and execute experiments in simulation and real-world embodiments, develop evaluation methodologies and benchmarks, perform ablation studies and statistical analyses, and iterate systematically to advance model performance.
• Prototyping and Research Infrastructure: Develop clean, well-documented research codebases, build experimentation frameworks and evaluation tooling, contribute to shared training infrastructure, and implement interfaces for broader robotics integration.
• Scientific Leadership and Publication: Drive an independent research agenda aligned with team objectives, publish at top-tier venues (e.g., RSS, CoRL, ICRA, NeurIPS), identify research gaps through literature reviews, and present findings via technical reports and talks.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with scientists, engineers, and leaders across teams to translate research into deployable solutions, mentor junior researchers, contribute to the team's scientific culture, and support integration with robotics hardware teams.

Skills

Communication skills

Experiment design

Python programming

Deep learning

Education

PhD or Master’s + 5+ years

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Amazon Robotics is seeking a Research Scientist to advance mobile manipulation by developing learning-based approaches for navigating and manipulating objects in dynamic fulfillment environments. The role includes producing publishable research and translating findings into production systems at scale.

You will lead cross-functional efforts with scientists and engineers, design data pipelines, and contribute to shared training infrastructure while publishing in top venues.