About this role
Amazon's Personal Robotics Group is pioneering intelligent robotic products that enhance customer experiences. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will lead the development of advanced control systems for robots, focusing on complex tasks and ensuring seamless integration with perception and planning systems.
Responsibilities:
- Lead technical initiatives in whole-body control and locomotion, driving breakthrough approaches through hands-on research and development in areas including policy learning, natural motion generation, vision-aided locomotion, and loco-manipulation
- Design and implement novel RL architectures and training paradigms for robust whole-body control that enables complex tasks across diverse scenarios
- Develop sim-to-real transfer techniques that enable policies trained in simulation to perform reliably on physical hardware
- Guide technical direction for locomotion and control projects from research through deployment, ensuring robust performance in real-world environments
- Collaborate with navigation, manipulation, and hardware teams to ensure seamless integration of whole-body control with perception and planning systems
- Mentor fellow scientists and engineers while maintaining strong individual technical contributions
- Establish benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for measuring locomotion and whole-body control performance across simulation and on-device testing