Data Science Forecasting & Lab, SCOT Forecasting & Lab

The Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) team builds technology to automate and optimize Amazons supply chain of physical goods. We seek a Data Scientist with strong analytical and communication skills to join our team. SCOT manages Amazons inventory under uncertainty of demand pricing promotions supply vendor lead times and product life cycle. We optimize complex trade-offs between customer experience inventory costs fulfillment costs fulfillment center capacity etc. We develop sophisticated algorithms that involve learning from large amounts of data such as prices promotions similar products and other data from our product catalog in order to automatically act on millions of dollars worth of inventory weekly and establish plans for tens of thousands of employees. As a Data Scientist you will contribute to the research community by working with other scientists across Amazon and our Supply Chain as well as collaborating with academic researchers and publishing papers both internally and externally.


Key job responsibilities
Major responsibilities include:
- Analysis of large amounts of data from different parts of the supply chain and their associated business functions
- Improving upon existing machine learning methodologies by developing new data sources developing and testing model enhancements running computational experiments and fine-tuning model parameters for new models
- Formalizing assumptions about how models are expected to behave creating definitions of outliers developing methods to systematically identify these outliers and explaining why they are reasonable or identifying fixes for them
- Communicating verbally and in writing to business customers with various levels of technical knowledge educating them about our research as well as sharing insights and recommendations
- Utilizing code (Python R Scala etc.) for analyzing data and building statistical and machine learning models and algorithms


A day in the life
As a Data Scientist in SCOT you will be tasked to understand and work with cutting edge research to enable the implementation of sophisticated models on big data. As a successful data scientist in the SCOT team you are an analytical problem solver who enjoys diving into data from various businesses is excited about investigations and algorithms can multi-task and can credibly interface between scientists engineers and business stakeholders. Your expertise in synthesizing and communicating insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication will enable you to answer specific business questions and innovate for the future.


- 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
- 2 years of data scientist experience
- 3 years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques and parameters that affect their performance experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

- Experience in Python Perl or another scripting language
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Bellevue - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually