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Senior Applied Scientist, Safe Locomotion, Compass

We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join Amazon Robotics, Compass Team. In this role, you will own the development of safe legged locomotion algorithms and their deployment on physical hardware, developing learning-based controllers that

Company

Amazon

Location

Pasadena, California, USA

Status

Open

Posted

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

Amazon Robotics' Compass team is hiring a Senior Applied Scientist in Pasadena for safe legged locomotion. The role involves designing, training, and deploying reinforcement learning policies on quadruped and humanoid hardware, developing sim-to-real pipelines, and combining learned policies with model-based whole-body controllers and safety mechanisms such as control barrier functions. The posting seeks a PhD or master's plus six years of applied research, at least three years applying RL to physical robots, simulator and deep-learning experience, and top-tier publications. Work centers on safety-critical machine learning for robot movement.