Data Scientist, Rapid & Rural Logistics (r2l)

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

Data Scientist role focused on building the next generation supply chain for Amazon's ultra-fast customer experiences. The role involves identifying and prioritizing complex business problems, translating them into data science problems, and designing, developing, and evaluating innovative statistics and ML models. It also requires establishing scalable processes for data analysis, model development, validation, and implementation, with a goal to improve customer experience, product availability, and reduce supply chain costs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, and evaluate highly innovative statistics and ML models
  2. Guide and establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation
  3. Work with product managers, engineers, other scientists, and leadership to identify and prioritize complex problems.
  4. Interview stakeholders to gather business requirements and translate business problems into data science or analytical problems
  5. Proactively seek to identify business opportunities and insights and provide solutions to shape key business processes and policies based on a broad and deep knowledge of Amazon data, industry best-practices, and work done by other teams.

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
  • 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
  • Master's degree in Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or PhD and 5+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience
  • Experience as a data engineer or related specialty (e.g., software engineer, business intelligence engineer, data scientist) with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets
  • Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
  • Ability to dive deep into complex technical problems and drive change.
  • Excellent problem solving skills with a strong attention to detail.

Nice to have

  • Ph.D. in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)
  • Knowledge of statistical packages and business intelligence tools such as SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS, or R
  • Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to reasoning and problem-solving
  • Experience with clustered data processing (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Map-reduce, and Hive)
  • Experience working with or evaluating AI systems
  • Experience applying quantitative analysis to solve business problems and making data-driven business decisions
  • Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication

What the JD emphasized

  • highly innovative statistics and ML models
  • scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation
  • complex business problems
  • complex technical problems

Other signals

  • Develop models that solve a wide range of complex and ambiguous business problems
  • improve customer experience, improve availability of products and reduce supply chain cost
  • Design, develop, and evaluate highly innovative statistics and ML models
  • Guide and establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation