# AI Engineer - RL Manipulation, RIVR

Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of what robots can do? Amazon is looking for a creative and driven Applied Scientist to help build intelligent robotic manipulation systems powered by reinforcement learning. In this role, you will research, design, and deploy machine learning solutions that enable robots to interact with the physical world in increasingly capable ways. You will tackle complex, ambiguous problems where textbook answers don't exist, working backwards from real-world needs to invent new approaches. Your work will directly influence how automation systems learn, adapt, and perform at Amazon's scale - and you will see your research come to life on real hardware. Key job responsibilities - Research and develop reinforcement learning methods for robotic manipulation, advancing the state of the art in sim-to-real transfer, contact-rich control, and adaptive grasping strategies. - Design, implement, and evaluate machine learning models and algorithms, leveraging deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow to train policies that generalize across varied manipulation tasks. - Build and maintain production-quality code that integrates scientific proto

- **Id**: 3700450
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-ai-engineer-rl-manipulation-rivr>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Zurich, Switzerland
- **Countries**: CH
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T19:16:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T22:48:15Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5196
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Logistics & Warehouse Robotics, Video Production, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4548
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.885
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Self-Supervised Learning** — Optional: no
- **Sim-to-Real** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow C++** — Optional: no
- **Transfer Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T19:16:51Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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