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Robot type
Warehouse and Logistics
Location
SeattleWashingtonUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Aug 25, 2026
Full-time

Senior Applied Scientist - Manipulation RL, 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 experienced Senior Applied Scientist to help guide a small team advancing reinforcement learning for manipulation. We are creating robots that learn how to push, flip, rearrange, and dexterously insert items with unparalleled robustness,…

Job requirements

  • PhD or equivalent research experience
  • 7+ years of applied research experience
  • 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Track record of training reinforcement learning or imitation learning policies in simulation and successfully transferring them to physical systems
  • 3+ years of building and deploying learning-based control on robotic systems
  • Experience leading technical projects and mentoring scientists or engineers
  • Experience with sim-to-real transfer at scale (domain randomization, system identification, etc)

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