Member of Technical Staff - Science, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)

Amazon • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Join the next revolution in robotics at Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team, where you'll work alongside world-renowned AI pioneers to push the boundaries of what's possible in robotic intelligence. As a Member of Technical Staff, you'll be at the forefront of developing breakthrough foundation models that enable robots to perceive, understand, and interact with the world in unprecedented ways. You'll drive independent research initiatives in areas such as perception, manipulation, science understanding, locomotion, manipulation, sim2real transfer, multi-modal foundation models and multi-task robot learning, designing novel frameworks that bridge the gap between state-of-the-art research and real-world deployment at Amazon scale.

In this role, you'll balance innovative technical exploration with practical implementation, collaborating with platform teams to ensure your models and algorithms perform robustly in dynamic real-world environments. You'll have access to Amazon's vast computational resources, enabling you to tackle ambitious problems in areas like very large multi-modal robotic foundation models and efficient, promptable model architectures that can scale across diverse robotic applications.

Requirements

• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
• Experience developing and implementing deep learning models
• Track record of solving complex technical problems

Nice To Haves

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development
• First-author publications at major or top-tier ML/Robotics/AI conferences
• Experience with foundation models or large language models
• Background in Robotics, computer vision, or related fields
• Experience with sim2real transfer or multi-task learning
• Familiarity with distributed training systems
• Track record of deploying ML models in production environments
• Experience with large-scale robotic systems
• Extensive programming skills in Python and PyTorch/JAX

Responsibilities

• Drive independent research initiatives across the robotics stack, including robotics foundation models, focusing on breakthrough approaches in perception, and manipulation, for example open-vocabulary panoptic scene understanding, scaling up multi-modal LLMs, sim2real/real2sim techniques, end-to-end vision-language-action models, efficient model inference, video tokenization
• Design and implement novel deep learning architectures that push the boundaries of what robots can understand and accomplish
• Lead full-stack robotics projects from conceptualization through deployment, taking a system-level approach that integrates hardware considerations with algorithmic development, ensuring robust performance in production environments
• Collaborate with platform and hardware teams to ensure seamless integration across the entire robotics stack, optimizing and scaling models for real-world applications
• Contribute to the team's technical strategy and help shape our approach to next-generation robotics challenges

Benefits

• Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior