Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, Fauna
$184K–$249K
New York, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of applied research experience with a Master's degree; alternatively, a PhD is required.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
About the job
Leads the design and deployment of robotics evaluation frameworks, data collection protocols, and teleoperation workflows to measure and improve robot capabilities.
What you'll do
- Build evaluation frameworks, task definitions, success criteria, and benchmarks for robot policies.
- Develop data collection protocols and teleoperation workflows, then analyze results to identify failures and data needs.
- Integrate evaluation tools and data pipelines into the robotics stack; lead projects through production and mentor junior staff.
What they ask for
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
- Experience in at least one listed area: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, or high-performance computing.
Nice to have
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, or scipy.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop or Spark.
Pay
183,800.00 - 248,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, Tensorflow, Hadoop
AI focus
Robotics and machine learning work focused on evaluating robot policies, collecting datasets, and improving capabilities through human-in-the-loop learning.
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