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Senior Applied Scientist - Manipulation RL, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan Stow

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

Company

Amazon

Location

Seattle, Washington, USA

Status

Closed

Posted

2026-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

Amazon Robotics' Vulcan Stow group seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to guide a small team advancing reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation. The person sets technical direction for contact-rich, non-prehensile policies, moves them from simulation training to reliable physical-robot execution, establishes evaluation practices, mentors scientists, and publishes. The posting asks for a PhD or equivalent, seven-plus years of applied research, three-plus years of machine learning and learning-based control, and Java, C++, or Python. Distinctive: deployment across Amazon's global network and real-robot data at scale. On-site in Seattle.