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Amazon Robotics

Robot type
Warehouse and Logistics
Location
North ReadingMassachusettsUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
May 29, 2026
Full-time

Applied Scientist - ML and Robotics

Job description

At Amazon Robotics, we design advanced robotic systems capable of intelligent perception, learning, and action alongside humans, at massive scale. Our mission is to deploy robots that increase productivity and efficiency across Amazon fulfillment centers while operating safely and robustly in complex, contact-rich environments.

We are seeking an Applied Scientist to develop manipulation controllers for robotic systems operating in contact-rich, uncertain environments. In this role, you will design force-aware control strategies grounded in impedance/admittance frameworks and augment them with data-driven policy learning to achieve robust, adaptive manipulation behaviors.

Job requirements

  • PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of science, technology, engineering or related field experience
  • Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience designing, running, and analyzing experiments in simulation and on real robotic hardware.
  • Experience developing manipulation policies for contact-rich tasks such as grasping, insertion, force-controlled interaction, or object manipulation.
  • Strong foundation in robot dynamics, control, and state estimation, and experience integrating these with data-driven methods.
  • Hands-on experience with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or hybrid learning–control approaches applied to robotics.
  • Familiarity with simulation tools and sim-to-real transfer for robotic manipulation.
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