Amazon
Applied Scientist, Fauna
$172K–$222K
Sunnyvale, CA · Full-time · Posted Jul 16, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of industry or academic research experience; also requires a PhD, or a Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML, or related field experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML, or related field experience.
About the job
Researches and builds spatial intelligence and semantic world-understanding algorithms for domestic robots, supporting autonomous decision-making, planning, navigation, and manipulation.
What you'll do
- Develop world-understanding and modeling algorithms and build simulation and on-robot evaluation frameworks.
- Run sim-to-real transfer experiments, analyze performance gaps, and improve real-world reliability.
- Collaborate with robotics teams to integrate capabilities and apply relevant research to improve performance.
What they ask for
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML, or related field experience.
- 4+ years of industry or academic research experience.
- Experience leading technical initiatives and key deliverables.
- Strong publication record at major Robotics/ML/AI conferences and programming experience in Python, C++, or a related language.
Nice to have
- Impactful first-author publications at major journals or conferences.
- Experience bridging research with practical robotics engineering, or working with World Models or Foundation Models for World Semantic Understanding.
Pay
USD 171,600.00 - 222,200.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++
AI focus
Develops robotics spatial intelligence, semantic understanding, world modeling, and reasoning algorithms; evaluates them in simulation and on robots and conducts sim-to-real transfer experiments.
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