Data Science - Forecasting & Lab, SCOT Forecasting & Lab

Data Science - Forecasting & Lab, SCOT Forecasting & Lab

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The Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) team builds technology to automate and optimize Amazon’s supply chain of physical goods. We seek a Data Scientist with strong analytical and communication skills to join our team. SCOT manages Amazon's inventory under uncertainty of demand, pricing, promotions, supply, vendor lead times, and product life cycle. We optimize complex trade‑offs between customer experience, inventory costs, fulfillment costs, fulfillment center capacity, and more.

We develop sophisticated algorithms that learn from large amounts of data—pricing, promotions, similar products, and other product catalog information—to automatically act on millions of dollars’ worth of inventory weekly and establish plans for tens of thousands of employees. As a Data Scientist, you will contribute to the research community by working with other scientists across Amazon, our Supply Chain, and with academic researchers, and publishing papers internally and externally.

• Analysis of large amounts of data from different parts of the supply chain and their associated business functions
• Improving upon existing machine learning methodologies by developing new data sources, testing model enhancements, running computational experiments, and fine‑tuning model parameters for new models
• Formalizing assumptions about how models behave, creating definitions of outliers, developing methods to systematically identify these outliers, and explaining why they are reasonable or identifying fixes for them
• Communicating verbally and in writing to business customers with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our research, and sharing insights and recommendations
• Utilizing code (Python, R, Scala, etc.) for analyzing data and building statistical and machine learning models and algorithms

As a Data Scientist in SCOT, you will understand and work with cutting‑edge research to enable the implementation of sophisticated models on big data. You should be an analytical problem‑solver who enjoys diving into data from various businesses, is excited about investigations and algorithms, can multi‑task, and can credibly interface between scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders. Your expertise in synthesizing and communicating insights and recommendations to audiences of varying technical sophistication will enable you to answer specific business questions and innovate for the future.

• 3+ years of experience with data querying languages (e.g., SQL), scripting languages (e.g., Python), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R, SAS, Matlab)
• 2+ years of data scientist experience
• 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling, data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance
• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

• Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
• Experience in a machine‑learning or data scientist role with a large technology company

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USA, WA, Bellevue -  -  USD annually

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 such as 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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