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; PhD is an alternative.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML, or related field experience.
About the job
Leads research and development of robotics foundation models and full-stack systems, taking innovations from design through deployment in real-world robotic applications.
What you'll do
- Lead independent research and design deep learning architectures for robotic perception, manipulation, and related capabilities.
- Lead robotics projects from conception to deployment, integrating hardware and algorithms for robust production performance.
- Collaborate with platform, hardware, and research teams to integrate, optimize, and scale models.
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.
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment and building machine learning models or algorithms for business applications.
- Experience developing and implementing deep learning models; experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
Nice to have
- Experience with foundation models or large language models, robotics, computer vision, sim2real transfer, or multi-task learning.
- Extensive programming skills in Python and PyTorch/JAX; familiarity with distributed training systems.
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux, PyTorch, JAX
AI focus
Develops multimodal robotics foundation models and deep learning systems for perception, manipulation, and other robotic tasks, including sim2real transfer and deployment.
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