Senior Robotics Scientist: Whole-Body Control & AI

Amazon; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Flexible Spending Accounts

Job summary

Amazon is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at scale. You will join a team pushing the boundaries of dexterous manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction, applying deep learning and model-based control to real-world facilities.

You will design whole-body control methods, implement real-time controllers, and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to co-design hardware and software for adaptive

Qualifications

• 3+ years building ML models for business applications.
• PhD or MS plus 6+ years of applied research.
• Experience in Java, C++, Python.
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.
• Experience with whole-body control methods such as hierarchical quadratic programming and model-predictive control.
• Experience with imitation learning and reinforcement learning for whole-body control.
• Experience with simulation environments such as IsaacLab, Mujoco, Drake, etc.
• Experience with developing and deploying code for real-time controllers.
• Experience in state estimation from multiple sensor modalities.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement whole body control for balance, locomotion, and dexterous manipulation.
• Utilize state-of-the-art methods in learned and model-based control.
• Create robust and safe behaviors for different terrains and tasks.
• Implement real-time controllers with stability guarantees.
• Collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams to co-design hardware and algorithms for loco-manipulation.
• Mentor junior engineer and scientists.

Skills

Machine learning

Java

C++

Python

Deep learning

Whole-body control

QP (quadratic programming)

Model predictive control

Imitation learning

Reinforcement learning

Simulation

Real-time controllers

State estimation

Sensor fusion

Education

PhD or MS with 6+ years of applied research

Tools

IsaacLab

MuJoCo

Drake

ROS

MATLAB

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

MXNet

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

Amazon is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at scale. You will join a team pushing the boundaries of dexterous manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction, applying deep learning and model-based control to real-world facilities.

You will design whole-body control methods, implement real-time controllers, and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to co-design hardware and software for adaptive