Amazon
Member of Technical Staff - Science, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)
San Francisco, CA · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 28, 2026
- Experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML, or related field experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree
About the job
Leads research and development of robotics foundation models and systems, taking them from novel algorithms through integration and deployment in real-world robotics.
What you'll do
- Drive independent research across robotics, including perception, manipulation, multimodal models, and sim2real techniques.
- Design and implement deep learning architectures and lead robotics projects from concept through production deployment.
- Collaborate with platform and hardware teams to integrate, optimize, and scale models for real-world applications.
What they ask for
- PhD, or a Master's degree and 4+ years of experience in CS, CE, ML, or a related field.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
- Experience with patents or publications in top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
- Experience applying theoretical models in applied environments, building ML models or algorithms for business applications, and developing deep learning models.
Nice to have
- Experience with foundation models or large language models; first-author publications at major or top-tier ML/Robotics/AI conferences.
- Robotics, computer vision, sim2real transfer, multi-task learning, distributed training, production ML deployment, or large-scale robotic systems; Python and PyTorch/JAX skills.
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux, PyTorch, JAX
AI focus
Research and develop multimodal robotics foundation models and deep learning systems for perception, manipulation, and other robotic tasks, including model training, sim2real transfer, and deployment.
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