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 network and combinatorial optimization, simulation-based 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 massive amounts of 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 fulfillment center processes, transportation
* Ph.D. in Operations Research, Transportation Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR Masters Degree plus 10 years of industry experience * Experience in simulation involving large data sets, or simulation-based design and model-based engineering, using analytical and simulation-based techniques to solve real world business problems. * Experience developing optimization models for business decisions * Experience writing scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby) to manipulate data and developing software in traditional programming languages