Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, Fauna
$192K–$260K
Sunnyvale, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of applied research experience with a Master's degree; alternatively, a PhD is listed.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
About the job
Researches and builds spatial intelligence, semantic understanding, and world-modeling algorithms that help a domestic robot understand home environments and support autonomous actions.
What you'll do
- Develop world-understanding and modeling algorithms and evaluate them through simulation and on-robot benchmarks.
- Run sim-to-real transfer experiments, analyze performance gaps, and improve real-world reliability.
- Integrate world-understanding capabilities with navigation and manipulation teams and apply relevant research advances.
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.
Nice to have
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop or Spark.
Pay
192,200.00 - 260,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow
AI focus
Develops robotics spatial intelligence, semantic and world understanding, world modeling, and sim-to-real techniques for autonomous decision making, task planning, navigation, and manipulation.
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