Applied Scientist, Execution and Planning Science

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Bellevue, WA · Applied Science

Applied Scientist role focused on building and implementing scalable algorithms for automated decision-making in Amazon's Last Mile delivery operations, specifically for associate labor planning, supply chain optimization, and improving cost, reliability, and speed. The role involves designing, modeling, developing, and implementing state-of-the-art models and solutions, feeding strategic analyses, and being part of production systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. design, model, develop and implement state-of-the-art models and solutions
  2. regularly interact with software engineering teams and business leadership
  3. advising on evolving flexible labor planning programs
  4. optimizing our supply chain network
  5. providing data-driven strategies to improve cost, reliability or speed

Skills

Required

  • Optimization
  • Statistics/ML
  • building models for business application experience
  • algorithms and data structures
  • parsing
  • numerical optimization
  • data mining
  • parallel and distributed computing
  • high-performance computing
  • Java
  • C++
  • Python

Nice to have

  • Unix/Linux
  • professional software development

What the JD emphasized

  • building models for business application experience
  • Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Other signals

  • optimize supply chain network
  • data-driven strategies
  • designing, implementing and evaluating experiments
  • production systems