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Research Scientist, Mobile Manipulation Robotics (I/O)

Amazon· Amazon Robotics
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North Reading, MA$159.2k - $215.3knot explicitly statedPosted yesterday

About the role

Research Scientist to advance mobile manipulation capabilities by developing learning-based approaches for robots to navigate and manipulate objects in dynamic fulfillment environments, with opportunities for original research and production-scale deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Research and Algorithm Development: Formulate novel research problems in robot learning and manipulation, design new model architectures, validate hypotheses through rigorous experimentation, and advance the state of the art in learning-based robotics.
  • Data Strategy and Pipeline Design: Define data requirements for research initiatives, design scalable collection and curation strategies, establish governance and provenance standards, and build reusable pipelines ensuring data quality and reproducibility.
  • Experimentation and Scientific Validation: Design and execute experiments in simulation and real-world embodiments, develop evaluation methodologies and benchmarks, perform ablation studies and statistical analyses, and iterate systematically to advance model performance.
  • Prototyping and Research Infrastructure: Develop clean, well-documented research codebases, build experimentation frameworks and evaluation tooling, contribute to shared training infrastructure, and implement interfaces for broader robotics integration.
  • Scientific Leadership and Publication: Drive an independent research agenda aligned with team objectives, publish at top-tier venues (e.g., RSS, CoRL, ICRA, NeurIPS), identify research gaps through literature reviews, and present findings via technical reports and talks.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with scientists, engineers, and leaders across teams to translate research into deployable solutions, mentor junior researchers, contribute to the team's scientific culture, and support integration with robotics hardware teams.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products experience
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of quantitative field research experience
  • 2+ years of designing experiments and statistical analysis of results experience
  • Experience communicating complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Strong proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)

Skills

Required:Robot learning and manipulationExperiment design and statistical analysisPythonDeep learning frameworks

Benefits

  • base salary range: USA, MA, North Reading - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually
  • sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
  • health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, optional supplemental life)
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parical leave (parental leave)
  • comprehensive benefits information linked in description
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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