Research Scientist, Last Mile

Description

Amazon’s Last Mile Team is looking for a passionate individual with strong optimization and analytical skills to join its Last Mile Science team in the endeavor of designing and improving the most complex planning of delivery network in the world. Last Mile builds global solutions that enable Amazon to attract an elastic supply of drivers, companies, and assets needed to deliver Amazon's and other shippers' volumes at the lowest cost and with the best customer delivery experience.

The Last Mile Science team owns the core decision models in the space of jurisdiction planning, delivery channel and modes network design, capacity planning for on the road and at delivery stations, routing inputs estimation and optimization. Our research has direct impact on customer experience, driver and station associate experience, Delivery Service Partner (DSP)’s success and the sustainable growth of Amazon.

Optimizing the last mile delivery requires deep understanding of transportation, supply chain management, pricing strategies and forecasting. Through innovative and strategic thinking, we make the right capital investments in technology, assets and infrastructures that allow for long-term success. Our team members have an opportunity to be on the forefront of supply chain thought leadership by working on some of the most difficult problems in the industry with the best product managers, scientists and software engineers.

Candidates will be responsible for developing solutions to better manage and optimize delivery capacity in the last mile network. The successful candidate should have solid research experience in one or more technical areas of Operations Research or Machine Learning. These positions will focus on identifying and analyzing opportunities to improve existing algorithms and also on optimizing the system policies across the management of external delivery service providers and internal planning strategies.

They require superior logical thinkers who can quickly approach large ambiguous problems, turn high-level business requirements into mathematical models, identify the right solution approach, and contribute to the software development for production systems. To support proposals, candidates should independently mine and analyze data and be able to use any necessary programming and statistical analysis software. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments that encourage collaborative and creative problem solving, be able to measure and estimate risks, constructively critique peer research, and align research focuses with Amazon's strategic needs.

• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience
• Experience in any Bigdata architecture, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities and experience in software development
• Proficiency working with Python and other high-level languages like Java/C++/Scala with at least 5 years of coding experience
• Strong fundamentals in problem solving, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
• Proven track in leading, mentoring, and growing teams of scientists.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with technical and business teams; ability to speak at a level appropriate for the audience, present business cases and document models and analysis and present the results in order to influence important decisions.

• Have experience of building mathematical models to represent a wide range of supply chain, transportation or logistics systems.
• Extensive knowledge and practical experience in several of the following areas: forecasting, capacity planning and optimization, statistics and pricing.
• Work well in a fast-moving team environment and effectively deliver technical implementations having complex dependencies and requirements.

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