Member Of Technical Staff - Hardware Science, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)
Amazon - San Francisco, California, USA
Posted May 19, 2026
Benefits
- Parental leave
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- Non-birth-parent leave
- 6 weeks Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Family-building benefits
- Mental health support
- Offered Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Relocation assistance
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- Childcare support
- Offered Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Learning budget
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- Verification
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- Salary
- $150K-$300K Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- 401(k) match
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $116,543 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +9.8% - Much faster than average
93% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
Schedule
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- Weekend work
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Company
- Equity
- Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026
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About this role
Member Of Technical Staff - Hardware Science, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) San Francisco, California, USA Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) team is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to drive foundational research and build intelligent robotic systems from the ground up. In this role, you will operate at the intersection of innovative AI research and real-world robotics - conducting original research, publishing, and deploying your innovations into production systems at Amazon scale. We're looking for researchers who think from first principles, push the boundaries of what's possible, and take full ownership of turning breakthrough ideas into working systems. You will join the next revolution in robotics, where you'll work alongside world-renowned AI pioneers to push the boundaries of what's possible in robotic intelligence. As a Member of Technical Staff, you'll develop breakthrough foundation models that enable robots to perceive, understand, and interact with the physical world in unprecedented ways-with a strong emphasis on the hardware systems that bring these models to life. You'll drive independent research initiatives in areas such as locomotion, manipulation, motor control, actuator design, sim2real transfer, and multi-modal robot learning, designing novel frameworks that bridge state-of-the-art research with real-world hardware deployment at Amazon scale. In this role, you'll balance innovative technical exploration with hands-on hardware implementation, collaborating with mechanical, electrical, and controls engineering teams to ensure your models and algorithms perform robustly on physical robotic platforms in dynamic real-world environments. You'll have access to Amazon's computational resources and advanced robotics infrastructure-including high degree-of-freedom prototype platforms,
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