Simulation Scientist, Worldwide Engineering and Innovation North American Sortation and Ultrafast Engineering

About the role

Are you inspired by Innovation? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to any of these and you’ll fit right in here at World Wide Engineering and Innovations (WWEI) - Sortation and Ultrafast Engineering (SUE) team. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, solutions advisory group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place. This is a blue-sky role that gives you a chance to roll up your sleeves and dive into big data sets in order to build discrete event 3D simulations using tools like Anylogic, FlexSim, Emulate 3D etc and experimentation systems at scale, build optimization algorithms and using technologies across Amazon. This is an opportunity to think big about how to solve a challenging problem for the customers.

Responsibilities

• Deep dive into complex problems and drive relentlessly towards innovative solutions working with cross‑functional teams.
• Interface and influence various functional teams and individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Lead strategic modelling and simulation projects to drive process design decisions.
• Synthesize and communicate insights and recommendations to audiences of varying technical sophistication to answer specific business questions and innovate for the future.
• Apply operations research principles and methodologies for complex use cases across multiple business networks to drive innovation.
• Contribute to the end‑state vision for simulation and experimentation of future designs at Amazon.
• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of simulation data science solutions to perform system‑of‑systems discrete event simulations for significantly complex operational processes that have a long‑term impact on a product, business, or function using FlexSim, Demo 3D, AnyLogic or any other DES software packages.
• Lead strategic modeling and simulation research projects to drive process design decisions.
• Be an exemplary practitioner in simulation science to establish best practices and simplify problems to develop discrete event simulations faster with higher standards.
• Identify and tackle intrinsically hard process flow simulation problems (e.g., highly complex, ambiguous, undefined, with less existing structure, or having significant business risk or potential for significant impact).
• Deliver artifacts that set the standard in the organization for excellence, from process flow control algorithm design to validation to implementations to technical documents using simulations.
• Apply judgment and simulation experience to balance cross‑organization trade‑offs between competing interests and effectively influence, negotiate, and communicate with internal and external business partners, contractors, and vendors for multiple simulation projects.
• Provide simulation data and measurements that influence the business strategy of an organization.
• Write effective white papers and artifacts while documenting your approach, simulation outcomes, recommendations, and arguments.
• Lead and actively participate in reviews of simulation research science solutions; bring clarity to complexity, probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding within the simulation data science discipline.
• Play a significant role in the career development of others by actively mentoring and educating the larger simulation data science community on trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Use advanced statistical