MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Entity: Amazon.com Services, Inc., an Amazon.com Company Title: Research Scientist I Worksite: Seattle, WA Position Responsibilities: Interact with various software and business groups to develop an understanding of their business requirements and operational processes. Utilize acquired knowledge and business judgment to build decision‐supporting and operational tools to improve the bottom line. Build quantitative mathematical models to represent a wide range of supply chain, transportation and logistics systems. Implement these models and tools through the use of modeling languages and engineering code in software languages such as Java, C++, C# or C. Gather required data for analysis and mathematical model building by writing ad‐hoc scripts and database queries. Perform quantitative, economic, and numerical performance analyses of these systems under uncertainty using statistical and optimization tools. Create computer simulations to support operational decision‐making
Position Requirements: Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and six months of research or work experience in the job offered, or as a Research Scientist, Research Assistant, Software Engineer, or a related occupation. Must have six months of research or work experience in the following skill(s): programming with Java, C++, C#, C, Python or similar major programming language; and experience formulating and solving both discrete and continuous optimization problems. Applicants must meet all of the above listed