Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, Last Mile Robotics
$167K–$260K
SANTA CLARA, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 29, 2026
- Location
- SANTA CLARA, CA
Bellevue, WA - Experience
- 3+ years building machine learning models for business application; PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
About the job
Develop applied research methods to reconstruct and simulate high-fidelity 3D delivery environments so autonomous robots can understand and navigate customer doorsteps.
What you'll do
- Develop methods for capturing, reconstructing, and simulating real-world delivery environments in high-fidelity 3D.
- Turn research breakthroughs into systems through experimentation and collaboration with robotics, autonomy, simulation, and software engineers.
- Improve scene reconstruction, neural rendering, and generative modeling for robotic perception, planning, and navigation.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.
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
USD 192,200.00 - 260,000.00 annually (base salary); USD 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow
AI focus
Applied research in scene reconstruction, neural rendering, generative modeling, and simulation-ready digital twins for robotic delivery environments.
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