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  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 10427097
    (Updated 52 days ago)
    Every day, hundreds of thousands of Amazon associates show up to fulfill the promise we make to our customers. Behind the workforce decisions that support them — staffing, retention, scheduling, development — there should be science that doesn't just describe what happened, but explains why it happened and predicts what comes next. That's the work we do. PXT Central Science (PXTCS) is Amazon's internal research organization dedicated to bringing scientific rigor to people and workforce decisions at global scale. Our team sits within the part of PXTCS that focuses on Amazon's Tier 1 hourly populations — the associates at the heart of Amazon's operations. We are a multidisciplinary group of 15 economists, data scientists, data engineers, and research scientists united by a single mission: to transform complex operational challenges into actionable insights through rigorous causal analysis and predictive modeling that empowers data-driven workforce decisions. We are building something new — causal predictive models that go beyond traditional forecasting. Our models don't just tell leaders what will happen; they reveal why it will happen and what levers they can pull to change the outcome. This is the frontier where causal inference meets modern machine learning, and we need a scientist who can help us push it forward. As a Data Science Manager (DSM), you will lead a team of economists, scientists, and data engineers working to solve complex scientific problems that have high business and customer impact. You will be responsible for building structural and predictive models, leveraging data science workflows, and driving innovations that deliver measurable results for Amazon customers. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with economists who deeply understand the causal mechanisms driving workforce dynamics and data scientists who know the operational landscape — and you will bring the technical creativity to expand what's possible. That means writing production-quality code that our partner engineering teams can implement into decision-making tools. It means exploring novel feature spaces — large language models, computer vision, and other emerging techniques — to unlock signal that traditional approaches miss. And it means doing all of this with the scientific rigor that causal claims demand. This role is built for someone who is entrepreneurial and energized by ambiguity — someone who sees a prototype model and immediately starts thinking about how to make it robust, scalable, and impactful. You will not just advance your own work; you will elevate the scientists around you. If you want to do science that directly shapes how Amazon supports its workforce — not in theory, but in production systems that leaders use to make better decisions every day — we'd love to talk. Key job responsibilities - Leadership & Team Management: Independently manage and develop a diverse science team, creating an environment that enables consistent delivery and innovation; Build and maintain a high-performing team that can operate effectively and autonomously; Drive strategic growth opportunities for team members, providing paths to demonstrate higher-level scope, impact, and leadership; Establish clear performance metrics and audit mechanisms to track and communicate team progress; Foster a team culture focused on bringing research to production and delivering customer value - Technical & Scientific Direction: Partner with stakeholders and leadership to define and execute the scientific vision for your team; Lead the development of structural and predictive models, leveraging emerging technologies and novel features; Drive the implementation of data science workflows and simulation frameworks; Bridge the gap between science, technology, and business requirements; Leverage the broader Amazon scientific community to enhance team capabilities and knowledge sharing - Strategic Planning & Execution: Define and maintain team structure, strategic direction, and owned technologies; Establish processes that enable consistent delivery and quality of scientific artifacts; Drive reasonable schedules and adjust priorities to ensure optimal outcomes; Create and implement audit mechanisms to track team performance against goals; Remove roadblocks and optimize team productivity - Communication & Influence: Create well-written documents to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences; Influence science and analytics practices across the organization; Build strong partnerships with stakeholders across different business units; Present complex scientific findings to senior leadership; Drive adoption of best practices and innovative solutions About the team The Central Science Team within Amazon’s People Experience and Technology org (PXTCS) uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, machine learning, and Generative AI to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, well-being, and the value of work to Amazonians. We are an interdisciplinary team, which combines the talents of science and UX to develop and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal.
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    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.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 10425385
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Amazon is seeking an exceptional Sr. Applied Scientist to lead the development of perception systems that harness the power of radar and thermal imaging — enabling robots to perceive and operate reliably in conditions where conventional vision alone falls short. In this role, you will develop ML-driven perception pipelines for non-traditional sensing modalities, pushing the boundaries of what robots can see, understand, and act upon in challenging real-world environments. At Amazon, we leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve some of the most complex operational challenges at a scale unlike anywhere else in the world. Our fleet of robots spans hundreds of facilities globally, working in sophisticated coordination to deliver on our promise of customer excellence. As a Sr. Applied Scientist in Multi-Modal Perception, you will apply deep computer vision expertise alongside classical signal processing techniques for radar and thermal imaging — modalities that provide robustness in adverse conditions and sensing capability beyond the visible spectrum. You will develop ML-based methods to extract semantic and geometric information from radar point clouds, radar tensors, and thermal imagery, and fuse these with camera and depth data to build perception systems that are reliable, comprehensive, and ready for deployment at scale. Your work will unlock new capabilities for our robots — enabling reliable detection, classification, and scene understanding in low-visibility conditions, cluttered environments, and scenarios where traditional RGB-based perception is insufficient. You will lead research that translates cutting-edge advances in deep learning and computer vision to these underexplored but high-impact sensing modalities. Join us in building the next generation of multi-modal perception systems that will define the future of autonomous robotics at scale. Key job responsibilities - Lead the research, design, and development of ML-based perception pipelines for radar and thermal/infrared imaging modalities - Develop deep learning models for object detection, classification, segmentation, and tracking using radar data (point clouds, range-Doppler maps, radar tensors) and thermal imagery - Design and implement multi-modal fusion architectures that combine radar, thermal, camera, and depth data for robust, all-condition perception - Develop novel representations and feature extraction methods tailored to the unique characteristics of radar and thermal sensors (sparsity, noise profiles, spectral properties) - Build end-to-end perception systems — from raw sensor data processing and calibration to model training, evaluation, and real-time deployment - Collaborate closely with Hardware, Navigation, Planning, and Controls teams to define sensor configurations and deliver integrated autonomy solutions - Establish benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation frameworks for radar and thermal perception - Mentor scientists and engineers; foster a culture of scientific rigor, innovation, and high-impact delivery - Publish research findings in top-tier venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, NeurIPS, etc.) and contribute to patents A day in the life - Train ML models for deployment in simulation and real-world robots, identify and document their limitations post-deployment - Drive technical discussions within your team and with key stakeholders to develop innovative solutions to address identified limitations - Actively contribute to brainstorming sessions on adjacent topics, bringing fresh perspectives that help peers grow and succeed — and in doing so, build lasting trust across the team - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions About the team Our team is a diverse group of scientists and engineers passionate about building intelligent machines. We value curiosity, rigor, and a bias for action. We believe in learning from failure and iterating quickly toward solutions that matter.
  • (Updated 44 days ago)
    The Catalog Services Product Knowledge team is seeking a Sr. Applied Science Manager for leading initiatives for understanding, and scaling organization of product schema information. Our vision is simple: build AI systems that are capable of a deep product understanding, so we can organize and scale the catalog metadata (schema) for Amazon e-commerce catalog worldwide. This is a complex problem because the magnitude of products entities (attributes, values, constraints) to be modeled to cover all the Amazon products worldwide. You will lead a team of experienced Applied Scientists (direct reports) to create models and deliver them into the Amazon production ecosystem. Your efforts will build a robust ensemble of ML and GenAI techniques that will scale our catalog artifacts with a high precision across countries and languages. The leader will drive investments in machine learning, natural language processing, GenAI, to solve real world problems at scale. The team's output affects the velocity at which we build product schema and support the largest e-commerce catalog and impact million of customers. The team builds solutions ranging from automatic generation of product metadata, classification of entities, validation of concepts against customer traffic, creation of agents solving complex tasks mimicking human decisions at high precision, etc; all these developments drive true understanding of products at scale. We are looking for an entrepreneurial, experienced Sr. Applied Science Manager who can turn a group of Machine Learning Scientists (PhD's in NLP, ML, GenAI) to produce best in class solutions. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in one or several of the following fields: Generative AI, Agents, LLMs, Web search, Applied/Theoretical Machine Learning, Deep Neural Networks, Classification Systems, Clustering, Natural Language Processing. S/he has a strong publication record at relevant academic venues and proven experience in launching products/features in the industry. Key job responsibilities In this team, you will: - Manage business and technical requirements, design, be responsible for the overall coordination, quality, productivity and will be the primary point of contact for world-wide stakeholders of programs and goals that you lead. - Partner with scientists, economists, and engineers to help deliver scalable ML scaled models, while building mechanisms to help our customers gain and apply insights, and build road maps for the projects you own. - Track service levels and schedule adherence, and ensure the individual stakeholder teams meet and exceed their performance targets. - Be expected to discover, define, and apply scientific, engineering, and business best practices. - Manage and develop Applied Scientists (direct reports with a respective team). About the team The team's mission is to infer knowledge, understand, and derive product schema for all Amazon products entering the Catalog. The work is critical to power drive policies on how products will be merchandised, guide Selling Partners, inform models how to infer attributes. All this information drives the navigational Taxonomy, Search and Detail Page experiences, impacting million of customers. This is an already formed team with experience leading programs spanning services and ML initiatives. The leader collaborates closely with Software Managers, Sr. Leaders, and has exposure to multiple peer teams at Amazon who rely on this team's developments.
  • (Updated 63 days ago)
    Do you want to shape the future of music discovery by building applied science solutions at Amazon scale? Join our Amazon Music team where you'll define and execute the applied science roadmap for catalog and search systems, directly impacting millions of customers worldwide. You'll work at the exciting intersection of large-scale content systems, applied science, and applying the latest advances in foundation models to build an intelligence layer on top of one of the world's largest music and podcast catalogs. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you'll drive innovation in music content understanding, leveraging foundational models to enrich catalog data intelligence and create breakthrough customer experiences. Your work will span across music catalog, search, and data systems teams, where success is measured by customer satisfaction, partner team success, and music labels' ability to share high-quality content seamlessly. Key job responsibilities - Lead the design and implementation of applied science solutions for large-scale music catalog systems, leveraging foundational models to enhance content intelligence and understanding - Define and execute the technical roadmap for Amazon Music catalog and search teams, driving architectural decisions across multiple systems and ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives - Design, propose, and collaborate on experiments that leverage rich music content for enhanced customer experiences in search, personalization, and recommendation systems - Drive technical excellence across three teams (music catalog, music search, music data systems) by conducting design reviews, setting engineering standards, and mentoring senior technical talent - Solve complex problems at the intersection of content systems and applied science, proactively identifying risks and implementing solutions that balance short-term deliverables with long-term architectural maintainability About the team The Amazon Music Catalog and Search team is responsible to help our customers discover the most relevant audio content including music, podcasts and audiobooks. The team invents technology at the intersection of the largest audio catalog in the world, applying latest advances in foundation models and proprietary data assets of Amazon Music. We build technology and products that is deployed worldwide but at the same time is customizable for local markets. We measure our success by the success of our customers, partners and audio content creators.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10423168
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    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.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10440521
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    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
  • (Updated 31 days ago)
    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!
  • (Updated 67 days ago)
    The Camera and Sensors team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to help build industry-leading technology with computer vision and multimodal perception models for various Amazon devices. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist with the Camera and Sensors team, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with multimodal models with an emphasis on computer vision. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of Computer Vision technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances for Amazon devices. A day in the life An Applied Scientist with the Camera and Sensors team you will support the science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing the customer experience; while setting examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers and scientists to put algorithms and models into practice. About the team You will work with a team of applied scientists and software engineers locally in Cambridge, along with a broader team of principle scientists, applied scientists and software engineers across multiple global teams in the devices group.
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    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.

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