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Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan
Amazon
On-sitemidPosted June 3, 2026
About the Role
Develop and deploy algorithms for robotic motion planning, control, and manipulation behaviors, ensuring robust performance through simulation, real-world testing, and production-quality code.
Requirements
Design, implement, and deploy control strategies, manipulation behaviors, and affordance generation methods for robotic systems, leveraging expertise in planning, control, perception, and machine learning.
Full Job Description
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 manipulation to handle enormous object diversity, bringing deep expertise across planning, control, perception, and machine learning. We learn from real-world data at a scale that few teams in robotics can access.
We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join our Motion Behaviors team. You will design, implement, and deploy control strategies, manipulation behaviors, and affordance generation methods for contact-rich tasks on robots operating in Amazon fulfillment centers — spanning both engineered and learned approaches. You will validate your work through simulation and real-world testing, leveraging rich operational data to systematically improve system performance.
Key job responsibilities
• Design, implement, and deploy motion planning, control, and manipulation algorithms on production robotic systems.
• Partner with experts across disciplines including perception, hardware and software to create intelligent, integrated systems and solutions.
• Contribute to the development of learned manipulation behaviors and controllers, including sim-to-real deployment.
• Write production-quality code and own scalable, real-time implementations.
• Validate algorithms on hardware, iterating between simulation and real-world testing to ensure robust performance.
• Analyze experimental results, identify failure modes, and drive systematic improvements to system performance.
• Champion Amazon in academia through publications and scientific presentations.
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members, including domestic partners. 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!
We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join our Motion Behaviors team. You will design, implement, and deploy control strategies, manipulation behaviors, and affordance generation methods for contact-rich tasks on robots operating in Amazon fulfillment centers — spanning both engineered and learned approaches. You will validate your work through simulation and real-world testing, leveraging rich operational data to systematically improve system performance.
Key job responsibilities
• Design, implement, and deploy motion planning, control, and manipulation algorithms on production robotic systems.
• Partner with experts across disciplines including perception, hardware and software to create intelligent, integrated systems and solutions.
• Contribute to the development of learned manipulation behaviors and controllers, including sim-to-real deployment.
• Write production-quality code and own scalable, real-time implementations.
• Validate algorithms on hardware, iterating between simulation and real-world testing to ensure robust performance.
• Analyze experimental results, identify failure modes, and drive systematic improvements to system performance.
• Champion Amazon in academia through publications and scientific presentations.
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members, including domestic partners. 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!