Where will Amazons growth come from in the next year What about over the next five What are the drivers and factors of such growth 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 Forecasting team in the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) organization is dedicated to answering these questions using quantitative and statistical methods. We build accurate predictive models and deploy automated software solutions to provide forecasting insights to business leaders at the most senior levels throughout the company.
As a Sr. Applied Scientist you will work with economists software engineers product managers and business teams to understand the business problems and requirements distill that understanding to crisply define patterns of problems and design and develop innovative solutions to systematically address them. Our team is highly crossfunctional and employs a wide array of scientific tools and techniques to solve key challenges including large scale statespace models large language models linear causal inference and optimization.
Key job responsibilities * Design implement and evaluate innovative models agents and software prototypes. * Collaborate with a team of experienced scientists to drive technological advancements. * Develop innovative solutions to complex business problems in collaboration with partner teams. * Work with engineering teams and product managers to develop new tools and systems to support and scale the growth of the business * Contribute to Amazons global science community through collaboration and publication of groundbreaking research. * Engage in research projects that contribute to the wider scientific community sharing findings through publications in toptier journals and conferences. * Mentor and develop the scientist community across the organization
3 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 large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop Spark etc. PhD in econometrics statistics industrial engineering operations research optimization data mining analytics or equivalent quantitative field Experience with conducting research in a corporate setting
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