2 days ago
Base Salary
$219k - $296k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the long-range science roadmap and technical architecture for mapping, localization, and navigation.
- Design and implement real-time visual-inertial and/or lidar-based SLAM and persistent mapping systems.
- Develop robust localization for changing indoor environments and build safe motion-planning and navigation systems.
- Architect semantic mapping for rooms, objects, surfaces, and traversable space.
- Guide sensor selection and placement and develop robot-specific data collection, benchmarking, and evaluation methods.
- Develop graceful degradation and recovery strategies for uncertain localization, incomplete maps, and occluded sensors.
- Present technical tradeoffs to leadership and partner teams and mentor scientists and engineers.
Requirements
- PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Vision, or a related field plus 7+ years of relevant research experience after the degree, or a master's degree plus 12+ years of equivalent experience.
- Deep hands-on expertise in SLAM, including visual, lidar, or visual-inertial approaches.
- Experience designing and shipping mapping or navigation systems on a physical robot or autonomous platform in real-world environments.
- Experience with motion planning and path planning for mobile robots in dynamic, unstructured spaces.
- Strong publication record or demonstrated technical impact in SLAM, spatial perception, or autonomous navigation.
- Experience influencing multiple stakeholders and leading cross-functional teams across geographies and business units.
- Preferred experience includes persistent and semantic mapping, sensor fusion, real-time embedded or edge optimization, learned navigation or mapping approaches, large-scale indoor localization, mentoring, and relevant publications or patents.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, and supplemental life-plan options.
- Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Amazon package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
Categories
Robotics
About Amazon
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