Applied Scientist - Simulation and Large-Scale RL, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan Stow

About the job

Our organization in Amazon Robotics builds robots that perform contact-rich manipulation safely and reliably in complex, unstructured environments at Amazon scale. Our scientists and engineers push the boundaries of robotic manipulation to handle unparalleled 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 advance reinforcement learning for manipulation. We are creating robots that learn how to push, flip, rearrange, and dexterously insert items with unparalleled robustness, speed, and reliability. Our goal is to deploy robots that will work across Amazon's global network and can handle the full diversity of items that Amazon sells. You will focus on training these policies in simulation at scale and transferring them to physical robots. You will join a small team whose mission reaches beyond any single product: to invent and apply manipulation capabilities that generalize to many future robotics applications. The robots our organization already deploys at scale give you a rare proving ground to collect data, run experiments, and get new policies onto real hardware faster than almost anywhere in the field.