Applied Scientist, Fauna
amazonBrooklyn, NY
Applied Scientist, Fauna
L4
amazonBrooklyn, NYtoday
Industries
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life SciencesAll Other Industrial Machinery ManufacturingOther Scientific and Technical Consulting ServicesOverview:
In this role you design and lead evaluation systems for robotic capabilities, shaping how policies are validated and data is collected to accelerate performance. You work at the crossroads of robotics, machine learning, and human-in-the-loop systems to build scalable evaluation infrastructure. You will define task structures, success criteria, and interfaces that enable reliable data collection and rapid iteration. This position blends research and production impact, offering an opportunity to advance robot intelligence and real-world task performance. Compensation / Benefits health insurance (medical, dental, vision) 401(k) matching paid time off parennial leave RSUs included disability and life insurance
Responsibilities:
Design and implement evaluation frameworks to measure robot capabilities across structured tasks, edge cases, and real-world scenarios Develop task definitions, success criteria, and benchmarking methodologies for reproducible evaluation of policies Create and refine data collection protocols to generate high-quality, task-relevant datasets Build and iterate teleoperation workflows and operator interfaces to support scalable data collection Analyze evaluation results to identify performance gaps and data needs for targeted collection Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate evaluation tooling, logging systems, and data pipelines into the robotics stack Stay current with advances in robotics, evaluation methodologies, and human-in-the-loop learning to improve approaches Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment Mentor junior scientists and engineers
Key requirements:
3+ years of building models for business application experience PhD, or Master’s degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing experimental mindset systems thinking cross-functional collaboration evaluation frameworks design task definition and benchmarking data collection protocols
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Level
MidL4
Location
Brooklyn, NY
Occupation
Robotics Engineers
Industry
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
Posted
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