Research Scientist II - AMZ

Research Scientist II

Employer:

Services LLC

Job Location:

New York, New York

Position Responsibilities:

• Interact with various software and business groups to develop an understanding of their business requirements and operational processes.
• Utilize acquired knowledge and business judgment to build scalable machine learning systems, optimization models and operational tools to improve the bottom line.
• Build quantitative mathematical models to represent a wide range of supply chain, transportation and logistics systems.
• Implement these models and tools using modeling languages and engineering code in software languages such as Python, C++, or JAVA.
• Gather required data for analysis and mathematical model building by writing ad-hoc scripts and database queries.
• Perform quantitative, economic, and numerical performance analyses of these systems under uncertainty using statistical and optimization tools.
• Create computer simulations to support operational decision-making.
• Identify areas with potential for improvement and work with internal teams to generate requirements to realize improvements.
• Design optimal or near optimal solution methodologies to be used by in-house decision support tools and software.
• Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies.
• Integrate prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies.

Position Requirements:

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of research or work experience in the job offered, or as a Research Scientist, Research Assistant, Software Engineer, or a related occupation.
• Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate research or work experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and one year of experience.
• Must have one year of research or work experience in the following skill(s): (1) programming with a major programming language including Java, C++, C#, C, or Python; and (2) formulating and solving both discrete and continuous optimization problems.

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

40 hours/week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $158,440/year to $212,800/year.

Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.