Amazon
Member of Technical Staff - Hardware Science, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)
$150K–$300K
San Francisco, CA · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 18, 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
Conduct foundational robotics and AI research, develop hardware-aware models and control systems, and deploy them on physical robotic platforms.
What you'll do
- Lead full-stack robotics research and projects from concept through hardware deployment.
- Develop and optimize control algorithms, sensing pipelines, and learned models for physical robots.
- Collaborate with hardware, mechanical, electrical, and controls teams on integration and validation.
What they ask for
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
- Programming experience with languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Experience with hardware design, low-level control, state estimation, system identification, or complex electrical systems.
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals, and building machine learning models or algorithms for applied business settings.
Nice to have
- Research expertise in full-stack robotics, foundation models, or large-scale robotics systems.
- Python and PyTorch/JAX skills; impactful publications, production robotics deployments, or large-scale distributed systems experience.
Pay
$150,000/year to $300,000/year (base salary)
Tools
C/C++, Python, Java, Perl, PyTorch, JAX
AI focus
Develop robotics foundation models and learned systems for perception, manipulation, motor control, and interaction with the physical world; apply research to physical hardware deployment.
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