[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Amazon jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Amazon · Sunnyvale, CA # Senior Applied Scientist, Fauna US, CA, Sunnyvale Senior individual contributor Research & Science Listed on Amazon’s official careers site. Posted October 15, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10580777/senior-applied-scientist-fauna) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Amazon](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/) / Senior Applied Scientist, Fauna ## Job description We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to focus on Robotics Spatial Intelligence and Semantic Understanding. In this role, you'll research and build advanced semantic and world understanding algorithms that enable robots to observe, understand, and reason about complex and dynamic home environments. You'll work across a broad spectrum of 3D perception, contextual understanding, and world modeling approaches to build robust solutions that support autonomous decision making, task planning, navigation, and manipulation. ### Key job responsibilities - Develop and implement robust World Understanding and Modeling algorithms for a domestic robot. - Build simulation-based and on-robot evaluation frameworks with comprehensive benchmarks and metrics for systematic evaluation of Our Spatial Intelligence stack. - Conduct sim-to-real transfer experiments, analyzing performance gaps and developing techniques to ensure reliable real-world performance. - Collaborate with navigation, manipulation, and other teams to ensure seamless integration of World Understanding capabilities. - Stay current with the latest advances in World Modeling, Spatial Reasoning, and related fields and apply relevant findings to improve system performance ### About the team Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. ### Our goal is simple make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces. We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products. ### Our work spans the full stack mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful. At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 15, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 18, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 3 days - Location: US, CA, Sunnyvale[Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10580777/senior-applied-scientist-fauna) ## More jobs at Amazon ### [Applied Scientist II, Foundation Model](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/257e51fe80d43fba0429/) US, CA, Sunnyvale ### [Applied Scientist II, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery Science, Prime Video - Personalization and Discovery Science](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/a89485600c7bef82a898/) US, CA, Sunnyvale ### [Applied Scientist II, Simulation](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/92c13022b7665a464ece/) US, CA, Sunnyvale ### [Applied Scientist III, AGI Responsible AI (RAI)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/6bc73f7fbfc923e8ab2f/) US, CA, Sunnyvale ### [Applied Scientist, AGI](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/16bc584fbfd7751c9d9e/) US, CA, Sunnyvale ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Senior Applied Scientist](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/oracle/jobs/f8ed9ff14b05042cc65f/) Oracle · United States ### [Applied Scientist II](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/1932503c468419f688ab/) Microsoft · United States, Washington, Redmond ### [Principal Applied Scientist](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/6887d8f40d7a9e34526e/) Microsoft · United States, Washington, Redmond ### [Principal, Data Scientist - Applied Machine Learning](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/walmart/jobs/8af78490b17976e76747/) Walmart · United States ### [Senior AI/ML Applied Scientist](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/unitedhealth-group/jobs/78af7d0e20840c30720f/) UnitedHealth Group · Eden Prairie, Minnesota [Jobs in Sunnyvale, CA](/locations/us/ca/sunnyvale/)[Jobs in California](/locations/us-ca/)[Research & Science jobs](/functions/research-science/) OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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