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Posted date: Mar 26, 2025
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Location: Bellevue, WA
Estimated salary: $169,150
Range: $125,500 - $212,800
Description
Does the thought of improving one of the world’s most complex logistic systems inspire you? Is your passion to sift through hundreds of systems, processes, and data sources to solve the puzzle and identify the next big opportunity? Are you a creative big thinker who is passionate about using data and optimization tools to direct decision making and solve complex and large-scale challenges? Are you fascinated by the interactions between operations and strategy? Do you feel like your skills uniquely qualify you to bridge communication between teams with competing priorities? If so, then this position is for you! Amazon's Modeling and Optimization team (MOP) is looking for a motivated individual with strong analytic and communication skills to join the effort in evolving the network we have today into the network we need tomorrow.Amazon’s extensive logistics system is comprised of thousands of fixed infrastructure nodes, with millions of possible connections between them. Billions of packages flow through this network on a yearly basis, making the impact of optimal improvements unparalleled. This magnificent challenge is a terrific opportunity to analyze Amazon’s data and generate actionable recommendations using optimization and simulation. Come build with us!
In this role, your main focus will be to perform analysis, synthesize information, identify business opportunities, provide project direction, and communicate business and technical requirements within the team and across stakeholder groups. You consider the needs of day-to-day operations and insist on the standards required to build the network of tomorrow. Your job will straddle day-to-day decisions and strategic vision, you will assist in defining trade-offs and quantifying opportunities for a variety of projects. You will learn current processes, build metrics, educate diverse stakeholder groups, assist science groups in initial solution design, and audit all model implementation. A successful candidate in this position will have a background in communicating across significant differences, prioritizing competing requests, and quantifying decisions made.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a deep understanding of identifying meaningful key performance indicators and building actionable metrics. This candidate is passionate about providing insights that drive larger initiatives and sees the undeniable value of a good metric. They are excited to be part of, and learn from, a large science community and are ready to dig into the details to find insights that direct decisions. The successful candidate will have good communication skills and an ability to speak at a level appropriate for the audience, will collaborate effectively with scientists, software development engineers, product managers, and hands on operators and will deliver business value in close partnership with many stakeholders from operations, finance, IT, research, and business leadership.
A day in the life
Qualifications
- 2+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience- 2+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL, Hadoop/Hive) experience
- 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
- Master's degree in a quantitative field, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science experience
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
Extended Qualifications
- 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on 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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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