The Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) Science team is looking for an experienced innovative and exceptional Senior Applied Scientist with strong Machine Learning statistical and analytical skills to develop critical forecasting models for one of the most complex systems in the world: Amazons Fulfillment Network. At AFT Science we design build and deploy optimization simulation and machine learning solutions to power the production systems running at world wide Amazon Fulfillment Centers. We solve a wide range of problems that are encountered in the network including labor planning and staffing demand prioritization pick assignment and scheduling flow process optimization and order fulfillment. We are tasked to develop innovative scalable and reliable sciencedriven solutions that are beyond the published state of art in order to run frequently (ranging from every few minutes to every few hours per use case) and continuously in our large scale network.
We develop scalable and robust stateoftheart ML and Optimization driven solutions that involve learning from different data sources and advanced descriptive diagnostic predictive prescriptive and cognitive models. With better forecasts critical algorithms employed at Amazon Fulfillment Network will achieve higher efficiency improving the customer experience directly.
In this role you will have an opportunity to both develop advanced scientific solutions and drive critical customer and business impact. You will play a key role to drive endtoend solutions from understanding our business requirements exploring a large amount of historical data and ML models building prototypes and exploring conceptually new solutions to working with partner teams for prod deployment. You will collaborate closely with scientists engineering peers as well as business stakeholders.
We are looking for an individual with strong analytical abilities communication skills and someone who is comfortable working with crossfunctional teams and systems. You will be responsible for researching prototyping experimenting analyzing predictive models and developing smart automation solutions.
Key job responsibilities
Develop an understanding and domain knowledge of operational processes system architecture and functions and business requirements.
Deep dive into data and code to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and/or disruptive new approach.
Drive model development with a combination of econometrics statistics machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems.
Research and develop new methodologies for demand forecasting alarms alerts and automation with advanced models and methods.
Improve upon existing methodologies by adding new data sources and implementing model enhancements.
Drive scalable and handsoffthewheel solutions.
Create enhance and maintain technical documentation and present to other scientists engineers and business leaders.
Partner with engineers to integrate prototypes into production systems.
Set high standards of coding and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems.
Use the best practices in science: data integrity design test and implementation and documentation.
Design experiment to test new or incremental solutions launched in production and build metrics to track performance.
Contribute to Amazons Intellectual Property through patents and internal and external publications.
Drive best practices on the team; mentor and guide junior members to achieve their career growth potential.
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location the number of regularly scheduled hours you work length of employment and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular fulltime employees include:
1. Medical Dental and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly wed still love to hear from you! At Amazon we value people with unique backgrounds experiences and skillsets. If youre passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale please apply!
About the team
Amazon Fulfillment Technology (AFT) designs develops and operates the endtoend fulfillment technology solutions for all Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FC). We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want when they want it.
The AFT Science team has expertise in operations research optimization scheduling planning simulation and machine learning. We also have domain expertise in the operational processes within the FCs and their defects. We prioritize advancements that support AFT tech teams and focus areas rather than specific fields of research or individual business partners. We influence each stage of innovation from inception to deployment which includes both developing novel solutions or improving existing approaches. Resulting production systems rely on a diverse set of technologies our teams therefore invest in multiple specialties as the needs of each focus area evolves.
5 years of building machine learning models for business application experience
PhD or Masters degree and 6 years of applied research experience
Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
5 years of industry or academic research experience
Patents or Publications at toptier peerreviewed conferences or journals
Experience with modeling tools such as R scikitlearn Spark MLLib MxNet Tensorflow numpy scipy etc.
Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop Spark etc.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.