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Applied Scientist, Fauna

Amazon· Amazon Robotics / Fauna Robotics (Fauna)
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$172.4k - $223.4kFull-timePosted 2d ago

About the role

Applied Scientist to design evaluation frameworks, data collection protocols, and end-to-end workflows for robotic capabilities. Focus on measuring, stress-testing, and improving robot behavior across real-world tasks, enabling validated policies and high-quality datasets to accelerate system performance.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement evaluation frameworks to measure robot capabilities across structured tasks, edge cases, and real-world scenarios
  • Develop task definitions, success criteria, and benchmarking methodologies for consistent and reproducible evaluation of policies
  • Create and refine data collection protocols that generate high-quality, task-relevant datasets aligned with model development needs
  • Build and iterate on teleoperation workflows and operator interfaces to support efficient, reliable, and scalable data collection
  • Analyze evaluation results to identify performance gaps, failure modes, and opportunities for targeted data collection
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate evaluation tooling, logging systems, and data pipelines into the broader robotics stack
  • Stay current with advances in robotics, evaluation methodologies, and human-in-the-loop learning to improve internal approaches
  • Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment
  • Mentor junior scientists and engineers

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of building models for business application experience
  • Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Skills

Required:Model building for business applicationsPublications or patentsProgramming
Nice to have:Robotics / evaluation methodologiesUnix/Linux

Benefits

  • Base salary with sign-on payments and RSUs
  • Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription), life insurance, EAP, Mental Health Support, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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