Amazon.com Services, Inc. is looking for a motivated individual with strong analytical skills and practical experience to join our Modeling and Optimization team. We are hiring specialists at all levels into our scientific team with expertise in machine learning, network and combinatorial optimization, statistical inference, algorithm design, and/or control theory. Amazon is growing rapidly and because we are driven by faster delivery to customers, a more efficient supply chain network, and lower cost of operations, our main focus is in the development of analytical strategic models and automation tools fed by our massive amounts of available data. You will be responsible for building these models/tools that improve the economics of Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment networks in North America, European, and Japan, China, and India as Amazon increases the speed and decreases the cost to deliver products to customers. You will identify and evaluate opportunities to reduce variable costs by improving
* Masters Degree in Operation Research, Transportation Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science or related field plus 5+ years of industry experience OR Ph.D in Operation Research, Transportation Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science or a related field * Experience implementing algorithms, tailored to particular business needs and tested on large data sets. * Experience developing optimization models for business decisions * Experience writing scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby) to manipulate data and developing