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Amazon’s Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) team is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to drive foundational research and build intelligent robotic systems from the ground up. In this role, you will operate at the intersection of innovative AI research and real-world robotics - conducting original research, publishing, and deploying your innovations into production systems at Amazon scale. We’re looking for researchers who think from first principles, push the boundaries of what’s possible, and take full ownership of turning breakthrough ideas into working systems. You will join the next revolution in robotics, 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 develop breakthrough foundation models that enable robots to perceive, understand, and interact with the physical world in unprecedented ways—with a strong emphasis on the hardware systems that bring these models to life. You'll drive independent research initiatives in areas such as locomotion, manipulation, motor control, actuator design, sim2real transfer, and multi-modal robot learning, designing novel frameworks that bridge state-of-the-art research with real-world hardware deployment at Amazon scale. In this role, you'll balance innovative technical exploration with hands-on hardware implementation, collaborating with mechanical, electrical, and controls engineering teams to ensure your models and algorithms perform robustly on physical robotic platforms in dynamic real-world environments. You'll have access to Amazon's computational resources and advanced robotics infrastructure—including high degree-of-freedom prototype platforms, custom actuators, and precision sensing systems—enabling you to tackle ambitious problems in areas like multi-modal robotic foundation models, motor-level control optimization, and efficient model architectures that scale across diverse robotic hardware. Key job responsibilities · Drive independent research initiatives across the full robotics stack, including robot co-design, manipulation mechanisms, innovative actuation and motor control strategies, state estimation, low-level control, system identification, reinforcement learning, and sim-to-real transfer, as well as foundation models for perception and manipulation · Lead full-stack robotics projects from conceptualization through hardware deployment, taking a system-level approach that integrates actuator dynamics, sensor feedback (force/torque, IMUs, encoders), and electromechanical constraints with algorithmic development · Develop and optimize control algorithms and sensing pipelines for physical robotic hardware, including motor characterization, actuator performance tuning, and robust sensor integration in production environments · Collaborate with hardware, mechanical, and electrical engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of learned models across the robotics stack—from embedded compute and communication buses to actuator-level control · Contribute to the team's technical strategy and help shape our approach to next-generation hardware-aware robotics challenges, including hardware-in-the-loop validation and prototype-to-deployment transitions A day in the life · Design and implement innovative systems and algorithms, leveraging our extensive computational and robotics hardware infrastructure to prototype and evaluate at scale · Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to solve complex technical challenges spanning motors, actuators, sensors, and learned control · Lead technical initiatives from conception to hardware deployment, working closely with robotics engineers and lab teams to integrate your solutions into physical robotic platforms · Participate in technical discussions and design reviews with team leaders, hardware engineers, and fellow scientists · Leverage our compute cluster and advanced robotics lab—including high-DoF prototype platforms and custom actuation systems—to rapidly prototype and validate new ideas · Transform theoretical insights into practical solutions that perform reliably on real-world robotic hardware About the team At Frontier AI & Robotics, we're not just advancing robotics – we're reimagining it from the ground up. Our team is building the future of intelligent robotics through ground breaking foundation models and end-to-end learned systems. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics, from developing sophisticated perception systems to creating adaptive manipulation strategies that work in complex, real-world scenarios. What sets us apart is our unique combination of ambitious research vision and practical impact. We leverage Amazon's massive computational infrastructure and rich real-world datasets to train and deploy state-of-the-art foundation models. Our work spans the full spectrum of robotics intelligence – from multimodal perception using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated manipulation strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We're building systems that don't just work in the lab, but scale to meet the demands of Amazon's global operations. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotics, working with world-class researchers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.

Do you ever struggle to explain your work? How's this: "Do you shop at Amazon? Do you know that box that says 'Add to Cart' and shows a price? Our team owns the model which picks that offer and the customer experience around the display of the offer price and the elements surrounding the 'Add to Cart' button which inform a purchase decision. We pick and display offers several billion times a day across all surfaces (mobile app, mobile web, desktop, Alexa shopping) worldwide. Our mission is to be the world’s first and most trusted choice for every customer on earth to discover and evaluate any product or service. Our team blends machine learning models to rank and select the best offer from the most trusted merchant for all products sold on Amazon along with a world-class front-end user experience for offer comparison to our global customers. We are responsible for the experiences and services that enable developers, including our own, to create tailored shopping experiences for every customer, product, business and marketplace offered by Amazon. We build scalable and extensible frameworks which allow for many teams at Amazon to innovate within the Offers Experience in a federated manner. If you are passionate about influencing and delivering the next-generation Amazon customer buying experience, we want to meet you. We are looking for a Senior Economist to join one of the most impactful and visible teams in Amazon. In this role you will work with business stakeholders throughout Amazon and provide technical direction and business expertise to strategize and help launch new businesses and features for our customers. You will use data to justify customer friendly decisions and present customer and financial impact of the changes we make to our stakeholders. You will work closely with other economists, engineers, product managers, applied scientists, TPMs, managers, and senior leadership team to understand and drive business impact. Successful candidates will have experience working on multiple projects with different stakeholders, make data driven decisions, have strong communication skills to interact with executives, non-technical and technical individuals and have a high technical bar along with a passion for people and project management. This is an opportunity to work with a team that drives one of the most coveted real estate in the E-commerce, the Amazon ‘Buy Box’ on Amazon Product Detail Page, Amazon Search Page , multiple buying widgets etc. on the Amazon desktop, mobile and tablet environments.

Are you ready to build something extraordinary from the ground up? We're looking for a seasoned Applied Science Manager to establish and lead a brand-new team in Bangalore, India, within Alexa Edge AI. This is a rare greenfield opportunity to shape the future of ambient intelligence by pioneering breakthroughs in computer vision, acoustic modeling, and multimodal semantic understanding that will power hundreds of millions of Alexa-enabled devices worldwide. As an Applied Science Manager, you will architect and scale a world-class applied science team that pushes the boundaries of what's possible at the intersection of edge and cloud AI. From enabling seamless Visual ID that recognizes who's in the room, to crafting ultra-low-latency wake word detection that works flawlessly in noisy environments, to building multimodal models that build deep semantic understanding — your work will directly define how Alexa perceives, understands, and interacts with the physical world. You'll operate at the frontier of on-device ML, tackling hard constraints in compute, memory, and power while delivering experiences that feel magical to customers. If you thrive on ambiguity, love building high-performing teams from scratch, and want to ship science that touches millions of lives daily — this is your moment. Key job responsibilities Establish and grow a high-caliber applied science team from the ground up at our new Bangalore site, defining the team's charter, culture, hiring bar, and technical roadmap Recruit, mentor, and develop top-tier scientists and engineers across computer vision, speech/acoustics, and multimodal ML disciplines Foster a culture of scientific rigor, rapid experimentation, customer obsession, and operational excellence Drive R&D of privacy preserving edge solutions like Visual recognition and Acoustic Modeling (Wake Word & Audio Intelligence) optimized for edge deployment on resource-constrained hardware (custom silicon, DSPs, NPUs). Define and execute strategies for optimizing latency, privacy, accuracy, and cost while collaborating with hardware and silicon teams to co-design next-generation AI accelerators and model architectures Own the end-to-end lifecycle from research ideation through experimentation, prototyping, and production deployment at scale Establish robust benchmarking, A/B testing, and metrics frameworks to measure real-world impact Partner closely with engineering, product, and UX teams to translate scientific breakthroughs into delightful customer experiences Shape the long-term science and technology roadmap for Alexa's perceptual AI capabilities Represent the team in org-wide science reviews, patent filings, and publications at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICASSP, etc.) Build strong cross-site collaboration with teams in Sunnyvale, Boston and other global locations A day in the life As an Applied Science Manager in Alexa Edge AI, you'll split your time between deep technical engagement and people leadership — reviewing experiment results, debating model architectures with your scientists, guiding on trade-offs, and connecting with cross-site partners to align on roadmap priorities and influence org-wide direction. Initially, a significant portion of your energy goes toward building the team itself: interviewing exceptional candidates, calibrating the hiring bar, coaching scientists on career growth, and shaping the culture of a brand-new site. You stay hands-on with the research landscape, refine your science roadmap, and ensure your team has clear priorities — all while context-switching fluidly between being a technical thought leader, a strategic voice in leadership forums, and a mentor to your growing team. No two days are the same — but every day, you're building a team, pushing science forward, and shipping intelligence to the edge. About the team The Alexa Edge AI team has a mission to deliver best in class, resource efficient multimodal AI models in support of various perception (vision, audio and speech) based applications for Echo Family of Devices within Amazon.

Are you excited to help customers discover the hottest and best reviewed products? The Discovery Tech team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide. We do this by combining technology, science, and innovation to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside advanced tools for marketers. You will be responsible for creating and building critical services that automatically generate, target, and optimize Amazon’s cross-category marketing and merchandising. Through the enablement of intelligent marketing campaigns that leverage machine-learning models, you will help to deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazon’s customers all over the globe. We are looking for analytical problem solvers who enjoy diving into data, excited about data science and statistics, can multi-task, and can credibly interface between engineering teams and business stakeholders. Your analytical abilities, business understanding, and technical savvy will be used to identify specific and actionable opportunities to solve existing business problems and look around corners for future opportunities. Your domain spans the design, development, testing, and deployment of data-driven and highly scalable machine learning solutions in product recommendation. As an Applied Scientist, you bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. To know more about Amazon science, please visit https://www.amazon.science

Are you passionate about solving complex classification challenges at massive scale? We are seeking a Data Science Manager to join our ASIN Classification team within WAVE (World Wide AI Enablement). In this high-impact role, you will lead a team of scientists and engineers to architect, deploy, and operationalize advanced machine learning models that drive ASIN classification across a range of compliance programs. From supervised and unsupervised ML approaches to Large Language Models and Small Language Models, you will guide your team in harnessing state-of-the-art techniques to deliver accurate, scalable classification solutions for millions of ASINs. Key job responsibilities • Lead and manage a team of Applied Scientists, Data Scientists, and Engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, scientific rigor, and operational excellence • Define the team's science roadmap and prioritize classification initiatives across compliance programs • Own end-to-end delivery of classification solutions from problem framing and data strategy through model deployment and production monitoring • Drive architecture decisions including model selection, feature engineering from product catalogs, and evaluation metric frameworks • Translate ambiguous, large-scale compliance challenges into well-scoped data science and ML workstreams • Collaborate with business teams to convert business requirements into scalable ML solutions • Establish and monitor classification metrics, model performance KPIs, and production health dashboards to ensure continuous improvement • Partner cross-functionally with Science, Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to align science investments with business priorities • Build scalable data environments and ML pipelines to support model training, evaluation, shadow testing, and production inference at scale • Mentor and develop team members through career coaching, technical guidance, and structured growth plans • Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership • Drive operational rigor ensuring zero-disruption deployments, data quality standards, and robust experimentation practices • Stay current with latest research, publications, and application of techniques to production systems

Application deadline: Jun 25, 2026 The Amazon Robotics Autonomous Mobility software team develops the autonomy software that powers Proteus, Amazon’s first fully autonomous warehouse robot. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join our perception and localization team. You will be part of an exceptional group of engineers building the platform and architecture for our onboard mapping, perception, motion planning and control software. In addition, you will collaborate with engineers and scientists across the team to develop and enhance our real-time multi-robot simulation capabilities. Key job responsibilities Specific areas of focus may include (but are not limited too): - Researching, designing, and implementing scientific approaches for sensor calibration, including cameras and LIDARs. - Researching, designing, and implementing scientific approaches for SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping). - Supporting and improving the large-scale deployment of a SLAM system shared across an autonomous robot fleet. - Evaluating and integrating new sensing modalities into an existing autonomy software stack. - Optimizing runtime performance of autonomy algorithms by exploiting underlying hardware acceleration capabilities. - Building frameworks for large-scale replay and analysis of events in pre-recorded sensor data. - Deliver high quality production level code (C++ or Python) and support systems in production. - Collaborate with other functional teams in a robotics organization. - Collaborate with hardware engineering team members on developing systems from prototyping to production level. - Work with stakeholders across hardware and operations teams to iterate on system design and implementation. A day in the life Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! About the team We are a multi-disciplinary team of collaborative Applied Scientists and Software Engineers with expertise in Computer Vision, SLAM, motion planning and controls. Our mission is to deliver a robust software solution the utilizes state-of-the-art sensor technologies and algorithms to enable safe and efficient operation of autonomous mobile robots throughout the Amazon fulfillment and transportation network. We take this mission seriously and work hard to achieve it, but we have a lot of fun along the way. After all, what's more fun than building robots?

The Amazon Search team creates customer-focused search solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, Amazon Product Search services go to work. We design, develop, and deploy high performance, fault-tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day. Our Search Relevance team works to maximize the quality and effectiveness of the search experience for visitors to Amazon websites worldwide. The Search Relevance team focuses on several technical areas for improving search quality. In this role, you will invent universally applicable signals and algorithms for training machine-learned ranking models. The relevance improvements you make will help millions of customers discover the products they want from a catalog containing millions of products. You will work on problems such as predicting the popularity of new products, developing new ranking features and algorithms that capture unique characteristics, and analyzing the differences in behavior of different categories of customers. The work will span the whole development pipeline, including data analysis, prototyping, A/B testing, and creating production-level components. Joining this team, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world’s leading Internet companies. We provide a highly customer-centric, team-oriented environment in our offices located in Palo Alto, California. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information Key job responsibilities Your responsibilities include but not limited to: * Analyze the data and metrics resulting from traffic into Amazon's product search service. * Design, build, and deploy effective and innovative ML solutions to improve search ranking. * Evaluate the proposed solutions via offline benchmark tests as well as online A/B tests in production. * Publish and present your work at internal and external scientific venues in the fields of ML/NLP/IR.

We are seeking a Sr. Applied Scientist to develop cutting-edge machine learning algorithms for motor control systems in robots. In this role, you will focus on creating and optimizing intelligent motor control strategies to enable robots to perform complex, whole-body tasks. Your contributions will be essential in advancing robotics by enabling fluid, reliable, and safe interactions between robots and their environments. Key job responsibilities - Develop controllers that leverage reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or other advanced AI techniques to achieve natural, robust, and adaptive motor behaviors - Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to integrate motor control systems with robotic hardware, ensuring alignment with real-world constraints such as actuator dynamics and energy efficiency - Use simulation and real-world testing to refine and validate control algorithms - Stay updated on advancements in robotics, AI, and control systems to apply advanced techniques to robotic motion challenges - Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers - Bridge research initiatives with practical engineering implementation About the team Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces. We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products. Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful. At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you. an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you.

Are you excited about leveraging and extending state-of-the-art Deep Learning, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision algorithms to solve customer problems at the scale of Amazon? As an Applied Scientist Intern, you will be working in the Melbourne office in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of experienced R&D scientists. You will take on complex problems, work on solutions that leverage existing academic and industrial research, and utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you may even deliver these to production in customer facing products. Key job responsibilities - Develop novel solutions and build prototypes - Work on complex problems in Deep Learning and Generative AI - Contribute to research that could significantly impact Amazon operations - Collaborate with a diverse team of experts in a fast-paced environment - Present your research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences - Collaborate with scientists on writing and submitting papers to top ML conferences, e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, ACL ICCV, CVPR, KDD. Key Opportunities: - Work in a team of ML scientists to solve applied science problems at the scale of Amazon - Access to Amazon services and hardware - Potentially deliver solutions to production in customer-facing applications - Opportunities to be hired full-time after the internship Join us in shaping the future of AI at Amazon. Apply now and turn your research into real-world solutions!

Our team is at the forefront of machine learning research. Led by scientists including Dean Foster, the team is dedicated to developing innovative RL algorithms and applying them to complex, real-world challenges in Amazon's global inventory and supply chain network. Our focus is not just on advancing theoretical knowledge but also on implementing these insights to optimize operations and enhance customer satisfaction. We foster a collaborative environment where exploration of new ideas and tackling complex problems is encouraged. The supply chain spans a wide range of operations,managing decisions that impact billions of dollars worth of inventory. For scientists passionate about impactful research in machine learning and AI, our team offers a dynamic and fulfilling environment to make a tangible difference in the field and Amazon's operations. Key job responsibilities - Design, implement, and evaluate innovative models, agents, and software prototypes. - Collaborate with a team of experienced scientists to drive technological advancements. - Develop innovative solutions to complex business problems in collaboration with partner teams. - Contribute to Amazon's global science community through collaboration and publication of ground-breaking research. - Engage in research projects that contribute to the wider scientific community, sharing findings through publications in top-tier journals and conferences. A day in the life A day in the life As a part of our team, you will be working alongside thought leaders like Dean Foster, contributing to academic research and complex, real-world applications. Your work will directly influence Amazon's global inventory planning systems, shaping decisions that affect billions of dollars worth of inventory and a wide array of product lines. You will tackle complex inventory planning challenges using Reinforcement Learning, contributing both to the theoretical aspect of the field and its practical applications. We value innovative thinking and the ability to approach problems from new perspectives. Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage - Maternity and Parental Leave Options - Paid Time Off (PTO) - 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!