Where will Amazons growth come from in the next year What about over the next five Which product lines are poised to quintuple in size Are we investing enough in our infrastructure or too much How do our customers react to changes in prices product selection or delivery times These are among the most important questions at Amazon today. The Topline Forecasting team in the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) group is looking for innovative passionate and resultsoriented Data Scientists to answer these questions. You will have an opportunity to own the longrun outlook for Amazons global consumer business and shape strategic decisions at the highest level. The successful candidate will be able to formalize problem definitions from ambiguous requirements build models using Amazons worldclass data systems and develop cuttingedge solutions for nonstandard problems.
Key job responsibilities Develop new forecasting models or improve existing approaches using scalable techniques. Extract data for analysis and model development from large complex datasets to explain demand trends. Closely work with engineering teams to build scalable efficient systems that implement prototypes in production. Distill problem definitions from informal business requirements and communicate technical solutions to senior business leaders. Drive innovation and best practices in applied research across the Amazon research science community.
2 years of data scientist experience 3 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R SAS Matlab etc. experience 3 years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques and parameters that affect their performance experience Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment Bachelors degree
Masters degree Experience in Python Perl or another scripting language Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company Knowledge of relevant statistical measures such as confidence intervals significance of error measurements development and evaluation data sets etc. Experience with applied time series modeling causal inference or machine learning forecasting applications.
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