Sr. Data Scientist, Leo Global Planning, Leo

Position: Sr. Data Scientist, Amazon Leo Global Planning, Amazon Leo
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DESCRIPTION:

Amazon Leo is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Amazon Leo will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

Do you get excited by aerospace, space exploration, and/or satellites? Do you want to help build solutions at Amazon Leo to transform the space industry? If so, then we would love to talk!

Key job responsibilities
Work cross-functionally with product, business development, and various technical teams (engineering, science, simulations, etc.) to execute on the long-term vision, strategy, and architecture for the science-based global demand forecast.
Design and deliver modern, flexible, scalable solutions to integrate data from a variety of sources and systems (both internal and external) and develop Bandwidth Usage models at granular temporal and geographic grains, deployable to Leo traffic management systems.
Work closely with the capacity planning science team to ensure that demand forecasts feed seamlessly into their systems to deliver continuous optimization of resources.
Lead short and long terms technical roadmap definition efforts to deliver solutions that meet business needs in pre-launch, early-launch, and mature business phases.
Synthesize and communicate insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication to drive change across Amazon Leo.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

About the team
The Amazon Leo Global Demand Planning team's mission is to map customer demand across space and time. We enable Amazon Leo's long-term success by delivering actionable insights and scientific forecasts across geographies and customer segments to empower long range planning, capacity simulations, business strategy, and hardware manufacturing recommendations through scalable tools and durable mechanisms.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- 4+ years of data scientist experience
- 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience

- Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression
- Experience developing forecasting methodologies

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Master's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science
- Experience managing data pipelines
- Experience working with scientists, economists, software developers, or product managers
- 3+ years of data visualization using AWS Quick Sight, Tableau, R Shiny, etc. experience
- Experience in data applications using large scale distributed systems (e.g., EMR, Spark, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Pig, and Hive)
- Hands-on experience in building machine learning or optimization models in a business environment using tools such as AWS Sage Maker

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

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USA, WA, Bellevue -  -  USD annually
USA, WA, Redmond -  -  USD annually]]>