Senior Applied Scientist - SLAM and Perception, Amazon Robotics

Description
Application deadline: Jun 10, 2026

The Amazon Robotics Autonomous Mobility software team develops the autonomy software that powers Proteus, Amazon’s first fully autonomous warehouse robot. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join our perception and localization team. You will be part of an exceptional group of engineers building the platform and architecture for our onboard mapping, perception, motion planning and control software. In addition, you will collaborate with engineers and scientists across the team to develop and enhance our real-time multi-robot simulation capabilities.

Key job responsibilities
Specific areas of focus may include (but are not limited too):
- Researching, designing, and implementing scientific approaches for sensor calibration, including cameras and LIDARs.
- Researching, designing, and implementing scientific approaches for SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping).
- Supporting and improving th...