The Amazon Robotics (AR) Science Tooling And Research (STAR) team builds models run analytics and setup tools to support the performance improvement of the entire AR system. This includes operational and software scaling characteristics bottlenecks and robustness to chaos monkey stresses we inform critical engineering and business decisions about Amazons approach to robotic fulfillment.
We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist to design evangelize and implement stateoftheart solutions for neverbeforesolved problems. The Scientist will collaborate closely with other research and robotics experts to design and run experiments research new algorithms and find new ways to improve Amazon Robotics analytics to optimize the Customer experience. They will partner with technology and product leaders to solve business problems using scientific approaches. They will build new tools and invent business insights that surprise and delight our customers. They will work to quantify system performance at scale and to expand the breadth and depth of our analysis to increase the ability of software components and warehouse processes. They will work to evolve our library of key performance indicators and construct experiments that efficiently root cause emergent behaviors. They will engage with software development teams and warehouse design engineers to drive the evolution of the AR system as well as the simulation engine that supports our work.
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits to 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!
Masters degree in a quantitative field such as statistics mathematics data science business analytics economics finance engineering or computer science or Bachelors degree and 3 years of professional or military experience
1 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R SAS Matlab etc. experience
1 years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction analysis statistical modeling and communication experience
Experience with clustered data processing (e.g. Hadoop Spark Mapreduce and Hive)
Experience with AWS Solutions including EC2 S3 Redshift EMR (or Hadoop)
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