# Applied Scientist II

We are seeking Applied Scientists to join Amazon. In this role, you will develop and deploy the science of safe autonomy on highly dynamic robots, advancing the frontier through both foundational research and realization on hardware. You will contribute to achieving safe autonomy across three key areas: control barrier function (CBF) theory for robust and performant safety on hardware; safe reinforcement learning for agile whole-body control; and layered safety filters that interface with learning, perception, and semantic reasoning systems. You will validate your work experimentally on state-of-the-art robotic platforms - removing bottlenecks to deployment and enabling robots to safely operate around humans. You will work with the inventor of CBFs, as well as top scientists and engineers at Amazon developing the next generation of safe autonomy. Key job responsibilities -Advance the science of safe autonomy from formal foundations to the integration with learning and perception to validation on hardware - with particular emphasis on methods that bridge these domains. -Test and validate hardware, with a focus on next generation robotic systems. Including locomotion, manipulation

- **Id**: 4291491
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-applied-scientist-ii-3>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pasadena, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T23:20:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T23:20:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8379
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- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## 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**: 4651
- **Ghost share**: 0.001
- **Stale share**: 0.889
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 31
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142800
- **Max**: 193200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 193200

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Isaac Gym** — Optional: no
- **MuJoCo** — Optional: no
- **PyBullet** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **Model Predictive Control** — Optional: yes
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: yes
- **World Models** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T23:20:04Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T02:10:06Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 193200
- **Is top pay**: yes

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