Senior Robotics Motion & Control Scientist

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

RSUs and sign-on

Job summary

Amazon Robotics Vulcan in Seattle is seeking a senior Applied Scientist to advance real-time control for robotic stowing systems. You will write production C++ and Python, review code, and set the technical direction for contact-rich behaviors, collaborating across vision, hardware, and operations teams.

You will lead architectural initiatives, stay at the forefront of force control and compliant manipulation, and drive sim-to-real transfer to production in live fulfillment environments.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree or higher with strong applied research experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python.
• 5+ years designing and deploying motion controllers for robotic manipulators.
• Hands-on experience with force- and torque-feedback control or compliant manipulation.
• Experience with real-time, high-rate control systems.

Responsibilities

• Research, propose, architect, and deliver complex features such as unified contact-control frameworks, robot-arm integration roadmaps, functional-safety envelopes, and motion recovery architectures.
• Bring recent scientific advances in force control, compliant manipulation, and sim-to-real transfer into production.
• Lead significant architectural and strategic initiatives together with more junior teammates.
• Work across cross-disciplinary teams (hardware, safety, operations, vendor engineering) to deliver novel, synergistic features and capabilities.
• Stay current with recent advances in robotics control, manipulation, and industrial automation.
• Own the technical bar on real-time control design decisions and serve as the senior technical interface to external robot-arm engineering teams.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Real-time control

Force/torque feedback

Motion controllers

Education

PhD or Master's degree

Tools

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

Gazebo

Job description

Amazon Robotics Vulcan in Seattle is seeking a senior Applied Scientist to advance real-time control for robotic stowing systems. You will write production C++ and Python, review code, and set the technical direction for contact-rich behaviors, collaborating across vision, hardware, and operations teams.

You will lead architectural initiatives, stay at the forefront of force control and compliant manipulation, and drive sim-to-real transfer to production in live fulfillment environments.