Applied Scientist Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon's Sellers and Customers? Do you want to build advanced algorithmic systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data to solve real-world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Science and Analytics team for Amazon Global Fulfillment Services (AGFS).

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, love to work with data, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build solutions to challenging problems that directly impact the company's bottom-line, we want to talk to you.

What is Amazon Global Fulfillment Services?

"Sellers on Amazon's Marketplaces, from Fortune 50 companies to hundreds of thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs operating in 135 countries, gain direct access to Amazon's 300 MM+ customers in 180 countries. More than ever, these Sellers are brand owners designing and manufacturing new products, creating a wave of innovation in global commerce. Amazon Global Fulfillment Services (AGFS) provides the software and services to enable this global supply chain, linking the factory floor to the customer's door. Not only does AGFS provide Sellers with reach and scale, but AGFS also enables Sellers to leverage Amazon's Prime shipping speeds and customer trust. As Jeff Bezos put it, AGFS "is so important because it is the glue that inextricably links Marketplace and Prime…"

Who is AGFS?

"We are product managers, data scientists, engineers and more, all working on some of the world's most complex operational challenges today at Amazon scale. We're inventing new products, tools and services for Sellers to better manage their businesses. We're using machine learning to prevent waste and defects for our Sellers, while improving shipping speeds and driving out cost - all of which, in turn, reduce prices and improve the experience for Amazon Customers."

Why join AGFS?

"AGFS is a mission-driven business whose purpose is to empower global entrepreneurs and enable product innovation at scale. More than 20,000 of these businesses surpassed $1 million in sales in 2017 and they created 900,000 jobs worldwide. By joining AGFS, you will have the opportunity to engage in challenging problems alongside smart and hard-working colleagues who are passionate about innovating on behalf of our Sellers."

Major responsibilitie

* Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems
* Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes
* Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models for predictive learning
* Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations
* Work closely with operations staff to optimize various business operations,
* Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation
* Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation