Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan Stow
Core
Designing and deploying real-time force-controlled manipulation and motion planning for a robotic stowing system that places items into fulfillment center storage bins.
Role type
Senior Applied Scientist (Robotics Control)
Builds
Real-time controllers, motion planning stacks, and safety envelopes for industrial robot arms in live fulfillment centers.
Domain
Robotics, Industrial Automation, Warehouse Logistics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Force/torque-feedback control, admittance control, compliant manipulation, real-time high-rate control systems, C++, Python, Java, motion controller design for robotic manipulators
Preferred skills
Sim-to-real deployment (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Gazebo), high-performance motion planning, third-party robot arm integration, publications in robotics conferences (IROS, ICRA, RSS, CoRL)
Technologies
C++, Python, Java, MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Gazebo
Responsibilities
Research, propose, and architect complex features like unified contact-control frameworks and motion recovery architectures; bring scientific advances in force control and sim-to-real transfer into production; lead architectural initiatives with junior teammates; collaborate with hardware, safety, and vendor teams; own the technical bar on real-time control design decisions.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership
