Senior Applied Scientist - Robotics Controls

Senior Applied Scientist - Robotics Controls

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At Amazon Robotics, we design advanced robotic systems capable of intelligent perception, learning, and action alongside humans, all on a large scale. Our goal is to develop robots that increase productivity and efficiency at the Amazon fulfillment centers while ensuring the safety of workers.

We are seeking an Applied Scientist to develop innovative, scalable solutions in feedback control and state estimation for robotic systems, with a focus on contact‑rich manipulation tasks. In this role, you will formulate physics‑based models of robotic systems, perform analytical and numerical studies, and design control and estimation algorithms that integrate fundamental principles with data‑driven techniques. You will collaborate with a world‑class team of experts in perception, machine learning, motion planning, and feedback controls to innovate and develop solutions for complex real‑world problems.

As part of your work, you will investigate applicable academic and industry research to develop, implement, and test solutions that support product features. You will also design and validate production designs. To succeed in this role, you should demonstrate a strong working knowledge of physical systems, a desire to learn from new challenges, and the problem‑solving and communication skills to work within a highly interactive and experienced team.

Candidates must show a hands‑on passion for their work and the ability to communicate their ideas and concepts both verbally and visually.

• Research, design, implement, and evaluate feedback control, estimation, and motion‑planning algorithms, ensuring effective integration with perception, manipulation, and system‑level components.
• Develop experiments, simulations, and hardware prototypes to validate control algorithms, and optimization techniques in contact‑rich manipulation and other challenging scenarios.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to enable scalable, real‑time, and maintainable implementations of algorithms in production systems.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams across hardware, systems engineering, science, and operations to transition algorithms from early prototyping to robust, production‑ready solutions.
• Engage with stakeholders at all levels to iterate on system design, define requirements, and drive integration of control and estimation capabilities into Amazon Robotics platforms.

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. The benefits generally apply to regular, full‑time employees:

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit‑learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensor Flow, numpy, scipy, etc.
• Experience with large‑scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark, etc.

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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The base salary range for this position is USD  –  annually. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and other benefits. Learn more at .