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Posted date: May 18, 2026
Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $187,250
Range: $159,200 - $215,300
Description
MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLEEmployer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC
Offered Position: Research Scientist III
Job Location: Seattle, Washington
Job Number: AMZ9443129
Position Responsibilities:
Design, prototype, analyze, and improve optimization models which are crucial components of our Seller inventory management systems. Work closely with software development teams as well as business partners to integrate prototypes into production systems and ensure that models are implemented properly to meet business requirements and performance scalability requirements. Apply domain knowledge and business judgment to identify new opportunities and quantify the impact aligning research direction to business requirements and make the right judgment on research project prioritization. Develop scalable mathematical models to derive optimal or near-optimal solutions to existing and new inventory planning challenges. Create prototypes and simulations to test devised solutions.
Position Requirements:
Ph.D. degree or foreign equivalent degree in Operations Research, Management Science, or a related field and three years of research or work experience in the job offered or related occupation. Must have three years of experience in the following skills: 1) building quantitative mathematical models to represent a wide range of supply chain, transportation, and logistics systems; (2) working with Python, SQL, Java, C++ or Scala; (3) performing quantitative, economic, and numerical analysis of the performance of Amazon systems under uncertainty using statistical and optimization tools such as Python, R or XPRESS to find both exact and heuristic solution strategies for optimization problems; (4) experience with mathematical optimization, including linear programming, combinatorial optimization, integer programming, dynamic programming, network flows and algorithms to design optimal or near optimal solution methodologies to be used by in-house decision support tools and software.
Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.
40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $159,200/year to $215,300/year.
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Qualifications
Position Requirements:
Ph.D. degree or foreign equivalent degree in Operations Research, Management Science, or a related field and three years of research or work experience in the job offered or related occupation. Must have three years of experience in the following skills: 1) building quantitative mathematical models to represent a wide range of supply chain, transportation, and logistics systems; (2) working with Python, SQL, Java, C++ or Scala; (3) performing quantitative, economic, and numerical analysis of the performance of Amazon systems under uncertainty using statistical and optimization tools such as Python, R or XPRESS to find both exact and heuristic solution strategies for optimization problems; (4) experience with mathematical optimization, including linear programming, combinatorial optimization, integer programming, dynamic programming, network flows and algorithms to design optimal or near optimal solution methodologies to be used by in-house decision support tools and software.#0000
Extended Qualifications
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