Applied Scientist, Stores Economics & Science (SEAS)

About the role

Stores Economics and Science (SEAS) is an interdisciplinary science and engineering team in Amazon's Stores organization. Our mission is to apply expertise in science and engineering to move from local to global optima in methods, models, and software. We achieve this by leveraging frontier science, collaborating with partner teams, and learning from the tools, experience, and perspective of others. We scale by solving problems, first in the small to prove concepts, and then in the large by building scalable solutions. We also help other teams within Amazon scale by hiring and developing the best and embedding them in other business units.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale science initiatives from research to production
• Translate complex business problems into mathematical frameworks
• Design and implement large-scale algorithms for complex supply chain and marketplace problems
• Design incentive-compatible mechanisms for marketplace challenges

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business applications
• PhD or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in 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

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement savings plans, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit our benefits page.