Applied Scientist, Air Science & Tech

About the role

The Amazon Middle Mile Science team is seeking an Applied Scientist to be part of a team solving complex airline operations problems to reduce cost and improve performance. You will work closely with product, research science and technical leaders throughout Amazon Air, Amazon Delivery Technology and will be responsible for influencing funding decisions in areas of investment that you identify as critical future product offerings.

Responsibilities

• Partnership with the engineering and operations to drive modeling and design for complex business problems.
• Drive full life-cycle projects.
• Design and prototype decision support tools (product) to automate standardized processes and optimize trade-offs across the full decision space.
• Execute complex modeling analyses to aid management in making key business decisions and set new policies.

Requirements

• Basic Qualifications: 3+ years of building models for business application experience, PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience, Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals, Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language, Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience using Unix/Linux, Experience in professional software development.

Qualifications

• Strong passion for customers, high level of comfort navigating ambiguity, keen sense of ownership and drive to deliver results.

Skills

• Extensive experience in Science work, business analytics.
• Aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies while dealing with ambiguities.
• Excellent business and communication skills to develop and define key business questions and build models that answer those questions.
• Strategic and analytical thinking about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Build and communicate compelling value propositions, work across the organization to achieve consensus.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.