Amazon Senior Applied Scientist Amazon Robotics 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

778580920

Key job responsibilities
• Research, design, implement and evaluate complex motion planning, controls, and decision making algorithms integrating across multiple disciplines.
• Create experiments and prototype implementations of control algorithms, planners, and optimization techniques.
• Work closely with software engineering team members to drive scalable, real-time implementations.
• Collaborate with machine learning, perception and software experts to implement and deploy algorithms, such as motion planning and controls algorithms.
• Collaborate closely with hardware engineering team members on developing systems from prototyping to production level.
• 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.Seattle, WA, USA

- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- 5+ years of relevant broad industry or academic applied research experience post PhD in developing algorithms for robotic motion planning, perception, control, and decision-making.

- 7+ years of applied research experience post PhD and extensive algorithm development experience for robotic motion planning, perception, control, and decision-making.
- Experience with interdisciplinary developments that involve hardware, software, and algorithm co-design.
- Experience in one or more relevant technical areas: robotics, computer vision, machine learning, sensors, real-time systems, embedded systems, distributed systems, simulation, high-performance scientific computing, or building infrastructure for engineering/science users.
- Expertise building and testing real-time systems.
- Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure and tool development for scientific/engineering users.
- Demonstrated experience incubating and productionizing new technology from idea generation through implementation.
- Experience in professional software development.
- Publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.