Amazon
Research Scientist, Fauna
$157K–$213K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of quantitative field research experience with a Master's degree; alternatively, a PhD.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience.
About the job
Develops verbal and non-verbal conversational systems and socially intelligent robot interactions, including social dynamics, memory, and long-term relationship formation.
What you'll do
- Develop conversational systems for human-robot interaction.
- Research social dynamics, memory, and long-term relationships between robots, environments, and people.
- Apply scientific principles to business problems and products, analyzing experimental and observational data.
What they ask for
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience.
- Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products.
- Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of R, MATLAB, Python or similar scripting language.
- Experience with agile development or building web based dashboards using common frameworks.
Pay
157,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
R, MATLAB, Python
AI focus
Research and develop expressive, socially intelligent, and trustworthy human-robot interactions.
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