Amazon
Applied Scientist, Fauna
$172K–$223K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
About the job
Leads development of frameworks, protocols, and tools to evaluate robot capabilities and collect data that improves robotic policies and systems.
What you'll do
- Design robot evaluation frameworks, task definitions, success criteria, and benchmarks.
- Develop data-collection protocols and teleoperation workflows, including operator-facing interfaces.
- Analyze results, integrate evaluation tools and data pipelines, and lead projects through production deployment while mentoring junior colleagues.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python or a related language.
- Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, or high-performance computing.
Nice to have
- Experience using Unix/Linux.
- Experience in professional software development.
Pay
USD 172,400.00 - 223,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux
AI focus
Applies machine learning and evaluation to robotic capabilities, including validating policies and generating datasets for model development.
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