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Robot type
Warehouse and Logistics
Location
SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Aug 6, 2026
Full-time

Senior Applied Scientist, Fauna Robotics

Job description

Robots are about to step out of the movies and into our homes. If you're excited about this robotics revolution, come join Amazon's Fauna Robotics. As an Applied Scientist in this org, you'll push the state-of-the-art techniques in Robotics. You'll drive technical excellence in areas such as perception, manipulation, sim2real transfer, reinforcement learning and multi-task learning, designing novel algorithms that bridge the gap between research and real-world deployment.

In this role, you will integrate hands-on technical expertise with scientific leadership, ensuring your team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments.

Key job responsibilities - Lead technical…

Job requirements

  • 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
  • Strong publication record at major Robotics/CV conferences (e.g., RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV)
  • Experience programming in Python, C++,or related language
  • Hand-on experience of deploying Deep Learning models on robots
  • Experience in developing Vision Language Action (VLA) models and/or Reinforcement learning for robot manipulation
  • Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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