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Human-Robot Interaction Applied Scientist

Amazon· Amazon Robotics / Applied Science
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New York, NY$183.8k - $248.7kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

We are seeking a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Applied Scientist to develop cutting-edge interactions that make robots feel alive, personal, and fun. Focus on verbal and non-verbal conversational systems, social dynamics, memory, and long-term relationship formation between robots, environments, and people. Contribution towards socially intelligent, trustworthy robot interactions.

Responsibilities

  • Develop interactive systems that leverage large language models, multimodal inputs and outputs, reinforcement learning from human feedback, or other advanced techniques to achieve fluid, engaging, and socially appropriate robot behavior
  • Design and implement intelligent conversational systems that handle turn-taking, grounding, interruption, and incorporates context drawn from a robot's physical environment and shared history with a user
  • Integrate perceptual sensor streams including gaze, facial expression, gesture, posture, and more to understand social context and produce coherent, lifelike interactions
  • Develop memory and personalization systems that allow robots to form lasting relationships with individual users, learn their environments, and adapt their behavior over weeks and months
  • Stay updated on advancements in HRI, NLP, multimodal AI, and cognitive and social science to apply cutting-edge techniques to robot interaction challenges
  • Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment
  • Mentor junior scientists and engineers
  • Bridge research initiatives with practical engineering implementation

Qualifications

  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • PhD or equivalent research experience, or Master's degree and 6+ years of industry or academic research experience
  • 3+ years of industry or academic research experience
  • Strong publication record at major HRI/ML/AI/HCI conferences
  • Experience designing, running, and analyzing user studies with real human participants
  • Experience programming in Python or related language
  • Demonstrated track record of leading technical projects
  • Experience mentoring junior scientists/engineers
  • Strong understanding of one or more of: dialogue systems, multimodal interaction, social signal processing, affective computing, or cognitive modeling
  • Experience applying machine learning (LLMs, multimodal models, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or related techniques) to interactive or socially situated systems

Skills

Required:Large language models (LLMs) and multimodal modelsConversational system design (turn-taking, grounding, interruption)Memory and personalization systemsSensor fusion for social context (gaze, facial expression, gesture, posture)Leadership and mentoring

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance options
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, and Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • Comprehensive benefits detailed on Amazon Benefits page
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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