Research Science Manager, Safe Autonomy, SAF Lab

We are seeking a Research Science Manager to lead a team in the Safe Autonomy Frontiers (SAF) Lab, developing the next generation of safe autonomy for highly dynamic robotic systems.

About the role

In this role, you will lead a team of world-class applied scientists, engineers, post-docs, and interns. You will drive technical vision and research strategy, ensuring innovations translate into production systems operating at Amazon scale. You will collaborate with top academic researchers and interdisciplinary teams across Amazon working on autonomous mobile robots, mobile manipulators, and dynamically stable robots. Your work will bridge academic research with real-world deployable safety layers enabling robots to operate safely around humans.

Work with the inventor of control barrier functions in the first industry research lab focused on safe autonomy, developing a universal safety layer for robotic systems including mobile robots, manipulators, mobile manipulators, and future platforms with dynamic stability. Your contributions will underpin robots operating alongside people at Amazon's unprecedented scale.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of scientists and engineers developing a universal safety layer for robotic systems, focusing on the next generation of robots.
• Design and execute multi-year research roadmaps for safe autonomy spanning current and emerging robotic platforms.
• Lead scientists, engineers, post-docs, and interns to achieve research and development goals, providing evidence of results in various formats.
• Drive integration of control barrier functions with planning, perception, and learning while maintaining guarantees of safe, high-performance robot behavior.
• Collaborate with product teams and science leaders to set a science roadmap with eventual impact on real robots.
• Publish research findings at top-tier conferences and contribute to the broader robotics community.
• Build relationships with academic and industry partners to stay at the forefront of safe autonomy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Engineering, Technology, Science, Operations Research, Robotics, Mathematics, or related fields, or a Master's degree.

Benefits

Amazon offers a full range of benefits supporting you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, hours worked, length of employment, and job status. Generally, full-time employees receive:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Maternity and parental leave options.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• 401(k) plan.

Pay

Base salary range for this position: $175,100 - $236,900 USD annually (Pasadena, CA). Your package will also include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.