Amazon Senior Research Scientist Amazon Robotics 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

330327375

Key job responsibilities
• Research, design, implement and evaluate complex motion planning, controls, and decision-making algorithms that improve the performance of systems deployed in real-world conditions.
• Apply recent advances in topics such as planning optimization, model-based controllers, or grasp affordance learning to our systems in the lab and in the field.
• Lead major initiatives, mentor more junior scientists, and raise the bar for applying science to scalable robotic products.
• Work closely with software engineers to drive scalable, real-time implementations.
• Partner with experts across disciplines including perception, hardware and software to create intelligent, integrated systems and solutions.
• Represent Amazon in academia community through publications and scientific presentations.
• Work with stakeholders across hardware, science, and operations teams to iterate on systems design and implementation.A day in the life
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

- 3+ years of investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of quantitative field research experience
- Experience with big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive etc.
- Experience communicating qualitative research methods and findings to non-qualitative researchers
- Experience mentoring, coaching, and influencing colleagues, collaborators, and stakeholders

- Experience converting research studies into tangible real-world changes
- Experience with discrete and continuous optimization methodologies and algorithms