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Amazon’s Top Robotics Engineer Joins AI Startup Scale

Brad Porter, who recently defended working conditions at Amazon warehouses, leaves to run Scale’s tech division.

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By Ellen Huet and Matt Day

August 31, 2020 at 2:00 PM UTC

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Amazon.com Inc.’s top robotics engineer, who recently defended the company’s warehouse working conditions, left to join the artificial intelligence startup Scale AI Inc.

Brad Porter will serve as chief technology officer, Scale plans to announce Monday. Scale makes software to help people train autonomous driving technology and other computer vision systems. The business was valued at more than $1 billion last year, when Scale’s then-22-year-old co-founder raised venture capital.