Applied Scientist II— Robotics & Physical AI, Autonomous Lab, WW Sustainability
Core
Build and operate the first autonomous materials discovery laboratory by integrating dexterous robotic platforms, analytical instruments, and AI-driven hypothesis generation into a closed-loop discovery pipeline.
Role type
Senior IC Applied Scientist (Robotics & Physical AI)
Builds
A working autonomous platform that generates scientific results for materials discovery
Domain
Robotics, Physical AI, Materials Science, Sustainability
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Motion planning, Control systems, Platform integration, Vision-language-action models, Sim-to-real transfer, Agentic orchestration, Robotic manipulation policies, API integration, Reinforcement learning, Imitation learning, Active learning, Bayesian optimization
Preferred skills
Unix/Linux, Professional software development
Technologies
VLA architectures, Diffusion policies, SiLA 2, AWS-scale compute (via careerplan.io/jobs/10556642-applied-scientist-ii-robotics-physical-ai-autonomous-lab-ww-sustainability-at-amazon)
Responsibilities
Develop and benchmark robotic manipulation policies; Design sim-to-real transfer strategies; Integrate robotic platforms and instruments into automated workflows; Architect policy training pipelines; Build production-grade agentic runtime systems; Design autonomous experimental campaigns
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC