- Robot type
- Warehouse and Logistics
- Location
- SeattleWashingtonUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Aug 11, 2026
Applied Scientist - On-Robot Learning, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan Stow
Job description
Our organization in Amazon Robotics builds robots that perform contact-rich manipulation safely and reliably in complex, unstructured environments, at Amazon scale. Our scientists and engineers push the boundaries of robotic manipulation to handle enormous object diversity, bringing deep expertise across planning, control, perception, and machine learning. We learn from real-world data at a scale that few teams in robotics can access.
We are seeking an Applied Scientist to bring learned manipulation policies to life on real robots. We are creating robots that learn how to push, flip, rearrange, and dexterously insert items with unparalleled robustness, speed, and reliability.
Job requirements
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- 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
- Hands-on experience deploying and evaluating learning-based control or manipulation on physical robots
- Strong background in one or more of: reinforcement learning, learning-based manipulation, contact-rich control, or force/torque control
- Experience in professional software development
- Experience with contact-rich control or manipulation policies, tactile sensing, or compliant control on physical systems
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