Amazon
Member of Technical Staff, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)
San Francisco, CA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years with a Master's degree; alternatively, a PhD is required.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
About the job
Develop and deploy robotics foundation models and learning systems that enable robots to perceive, understand, and interact with real-world environments.
What you'll do
- Lead research and develop deep-learning architectures and algorithms for robotic perception, manipulation, and related challenges.
- Lead robotics projects from research and prototyping through integration and production deployment.
- Collaborate with platform and hardware teams to scale and optimize models for real-world robotic applications.
What they ask for
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language; applying theoretical models in an applied environment; and building machine-learning models or algorithms for business application
- Experience developing and implementing deep-learning models and solving complex technical problems
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Nice to have
- First-author publications at major or top-tier ML/Robotics/AI conferences
- Experience with foundation models or large language models; robotics, computer vision, sim2real transfer, multi-task learning, distributed training, production ML, or large-scale robotic systems
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux, PyTorch, JAX
AI focus
Research, build, and deploy robotics foundation models, including multimodal and vision-language-action models, for perception, manipulation, and other robotic tasks.
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