Senior Applied Scientist - Manipulation RL, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan Stow

What you’d do

Set technical direction for reinforcement learning of non-prehensile and contact-rich robot manipulation, taking policies from simulation training to reliable real-time execution on physical robots. Mentor scientists and engineers and partner with control, perception, and hardware teams. Full-time in Seattle. Found on the employer's careers page on Sep 30, 2026. Apply through the link.

You’ll need

• PhD or equivalent research experience
• 7+ years of applied research experience
• 3+ years building ML models for business applications
• Programming in Java, C++, Python or related language