Manager Research Science Fulfillment Planning and Science - Fulfillment Optimization

Have you ever wondered how Amazon predicts when your order will arrive and how we ensure that it actually arrives on at the promised date/time Have you wondered where all those Amazon semitrucks on the road are headed Are you passionate about increasing efficiency and reducing carbon footprint Does the idea of having worldwide impact on Amazons logistics network including our planes trucks and vans sound exciting to you If so then we want to talk with you! At Amazons Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) we are tasked with optimizing the fulfilment on customer orders so that we fulfil all orders worldwide in the most intelligent manner while ensuring Amazon customers get their orders on time.
Amazon Fulfillment Planning & (FPX) Science team within SCOT Fulfilment Optimization group is seeking Manager Research Science with expertise in Machine Learning and/or Optimization and a proven record of leading scientists and solving business problems through scalable ML solutions. FPX Science tackles some of the most mathematically complex challenges in transportation planning and space to improve Amazons operational efficiency worldwide. We own Amazons global fulfilment center and transportation planning and . The team also owns the shortterm network planning and that determines the optimal flow of customer orders through Amazon fulfilment network. This includes developing sophisticated math models and controllers that assign orders to fulfilment centers to be picked and packed and then planning the optimal ship method in terms of cost speed and carbon impact to deliver to the customer. These plans drive downstream decisions that are in the billions of dollars at Amazon Scale worldwide. The systems we build are entirely inhouse and are on the cutting edge of both academic and applied research in large scale supply chain planning optimization machine learning and statistics. These systems operate at various scales from realtime decision system that completes thousands of transactions per seconds to large scale distributed system that optimize Amazons fulfilment network. As Amazon continues to build and expand the first party delivery network this role will be critical to realize this vision. Your team and tech solution will have large impacts to the physical supply chain of Amazon and play a key role in improving Amazon consumer businesss longterm profitability. If you are interested in diving into a multidiscipline high impact space this is the team for you. Were looking for a passionate resultsoriented and inventive Scientist who can lead from the front towards developing and deploying ML models for our outbound transportation planning systems. In addition you will be working on design development and evaluation of highly innovative ML models for solving complex business problems in the area of outbound transportation planning systems.
The position is located at Bellevue WA just next to Seattle with beautiful outdoors and great city life.
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Key job responsibilities
As a Manager of Research Science within FPX Science team you will lead a team of research and applied scientists towards designing and deploy solutions that will likely draw from a range of scientific areas such as supervised semisupervised and unsupervised learning reinforcement learning advanced statistical modeling and graph models. You will have an opportunity to be on the forefront of supply chain thought leadership by working on some of the most difficult problems in the industry with some of the best product managers research scientists statisticians and software engineers to integrate scientific work into production systems. You will bring deep technical expertise in the area of Machine Learning and will play an integral part in building Amazons Fulfillment Optimization systems. Other responsibilities include:

* Lead a team of research and applied scientists towards design development and evaluation of highly innovative ML models for solving complex business problems.
* Technically lead and mentor the scientists on the team.
* Research and apply the latest ML techniques and best practices from both academia and industry.
* Use and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems.
* Work closely with software engineering teams to build model implementations and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems at very large scale.
* Establish scalable efficient automated processes for large scale data analyses model development model validation and model implementation.


A day in the life
In this critical role you will be a technical leader in operations research or machine learning with significant scope impact and visibility. Your solutions have the potential to drive billions of dollars in impact for Amazons supply chain globally. As a science manager on the team you will engage in all facets of the process from ideation business analysis and scientific research to development and deployment of advanced models. We are seeking someone who wants to lead projects that require innovative thinking and deep technical problemsolving skills to create productionready machine learning solutions. A successful candidate is able to quickly approach large ambiguous problems turn highlevel business requirements into mathematical models identify the right solution approach and contribute to the software development for production systems. Successful candidates must thrive in fastpaced environments which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving be able to measure and estimate risks constructively critique peer research and align research focuses with the Amazons strategic needs. We look for individuals who know how to deliver results and show a desire to develop themselves their team and their career.

About the team
Fulfillment Planning & Science team contains a group of scientists with different technical backgrounds including Machine Learning and Operations Research who will collaborate closely with you on your projects. Our team directly supports critical functional areas across Fulfillment Optimization and the research needs of the corresponding product and engineering teams. We tackle some of the most mathematically complex challenges in facility and transportation planning and to improve Amazons operational efficiency worldwide and at a scale that is unique to Amazon. We often seek the opportunity of applying hybrid techniques in the space of Operations Research and Machine Learning to tackle some of our biggest technical challenges. We disambiguate complex supply chain problems and create ML and optimization solutions to solve those problems at scale.

Ph.D. in Computer Science Operations Research Operations Management Industrial Engineering Statistics Applied Mathematics or a related field
5 years of handson experience in building machine learning models in business environment
Proven track in leading and mentoring scientists with demonstrated ability to serve as a technical lead
Strong fundamentals in problem solving algorithm design and complexity analysis
Excellent communication skills both written and oral catered appropriately towards both technical and business people.
Demonstrated ability to document the models and analysis and present the results/conclusions in order to influence business critical decisions

Experience leading a team of scientists across disciplines including RS AS DS
Prior wellestablished worldclass recognized academic experience including multiple publications in toptier academic journals; or industry experience conducting research in the aforementioned areas with proven track record in developing solutions for major business problems demonstrating significant innovation creativity and judgment
Deep technical knowledge of machine learning and statistical methodologies
Prior experience modeling supply chain related problems
Experience of applying hybrid techniques in the space of ML and Operations Research is a big plus
Experience with fully automated machine training (e.g. automatic retraining automatic testing)
Experience with highimpact decisions >$1B)
5 years of production coding experience in one of the objectoriented programming languages such as Java Python C etc is a big plus.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $157600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $272400/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.