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Applied Scientist - Amazon Robotics, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan Stow

Our team in Amazon Robotics builds robotic systems that perform contact-rich manipulation tasks safely and reliably in complex, unstructured environments — at Amazon scale. Our scientists and engineers push the boundaries of robotic manipul

Company

Amazon

Location

Seattle, Washington, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

Amazon Robotics seeks an Applied Scientist for its Motion Behaviors team, on-site in Seattle, to build learned controllers and manipulation behaviors — reinforcement learning, behavior cloning — from research prototyping to deployment on fulfillment-center robots. Work also covers motion planning, control and decision-making algorithms, sim-to-real learning pipelines, and models predicting manipulation outcomes. The posting asks for a PhD or a master's with four years' experience, coding in Java, C++, or Python, publications, and RL or imitation learning policy training. Sim-to-real transfer onto physical robots is preferred, and the scientist publishes externally.