Amazon
Sr. Applied Scientist, Fauna
$192K–$260K
Sunnyvale, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 30, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of industry or academic research experience; PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree
About the job
Researches and develops robot navigation systems that operate safely and reliably in complex, dynamic environments, from simulation through real-world deployment.
What you'll do
- Develop navigation systems and simulation/on-device evaluation frameworks with benchmarks and metrics.
- Conduct sim-to-real transfer experiments and improve real-world performance.
- Collaborate across robotics teams, track research advances, and mentor scientists and engineers while contributing technically.
What they ask for
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- 3+ years of industry or academic research experience.
- Strong publication record at major Robotics/ML/AI conferences; experience programming in Python, C++, or a related language.
- Experience with sim-to-real transfer for robotic systems; demonstrated technical project leadership and mentoring experience.
Nice to have
- Impactful first-author publications; experience translating robotics research into practical engineering implementations.
- Experience with visual or semantic navigation, foundation models for robot navigation, or benchmarking multiple navigation approaches.
Pay
192,200.00 - 260,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++
AI focus
Develops and evaluates learning-based navigation techniques and foundation models for autonomous robot navigation, including sim-to-real transfer.
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