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  • (Updated 3 days ago)
    AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow. Are you a customer-obsessed builder passionate about helping enterprise customers achieve their full potential with Generative AI? Do you have deep data science expertise and the technical pre-sales acumen to help customers evaluate, design, and deploy GenAI and ML solutions on AWS? Do you enjoy building impactful AI agents and agentic applications? Join the GenAI/ML Specialist organization as a Senior Generative AI Data Scientist — a senior individual contributor role requiring deep data science expertise, hands-on ML engineering skills, and executive-level customer engagement. The AGS Specialist organization is part of the customer-facing NAMER sales organization, and is responsible for driving revenue and accelerating adoption of cloud and partner services across diverse customer segments. We work backwards from our customers' most complex and business-critical challenges to develop and execute go-to-market plans that transform ideas into scalable, high-impact businesses. AGS NAMER teams include sales specialists and technical solution architects. As part of the team, you will contribute across the full lifecycle of AWS customer initiatives—from shaping new service and solution concepts to accelerating adoption of established offerings. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional customer outcomes, and collaborating seamlessly across AWS as #OneTeam. Role Description In this role, you will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for helping NAMER Enterprise customers design and implement Generative AI solutions that leverage Amazon Bedrock. You will translate customer business challenges into data science-driven solutions using AWS. You will define, design, and deploy machine learning models, agentic workflows, and GenAI applications that accelerate adoption of AWS AI/ML services. You will engage with senior engineers, data scientists, product leaders, and executives at strategic enterprise customers to influence technical decisions and provide structured feedback to AWS product teams. You will interact with customers directly to understand their business problems, help and aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, deliver briefings and deep dive sessions, and guide customers on adoption patterns and best practices for generative AI. You will build prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and explore novel solutions leveraging Amazon Bedrock, Amazon AgentCore, Strands Agents, and open source frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, and CrewAI. This position will focus on agentic workflows with Amazon Bedrock, including Strands Agents, Bedrock Agents, and open source agentic frameworks. You must have deep technical experience working with technologies related to large language models including LLM architectures, model evaluation, and fine-tuning techniques. You should be proficient with design, deployment, and evaluation of LLM-powered agents, tools, and orchestration approaches. You will interface with customer data science teams, ML engineering leadership, and C-suite executives to advise on the latest techniques, model architectures, and emerging research. This includes staying current with state-of-the-art approaches from recent publications and research papers — such as advances in reasoning models, multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and novel fine-tuning methods — and translating those findings into practical, production-ready solutions for enterprise customers. You will lead technical deep dives and whiteboard sessions with customer chief data scientists and VPs of AI/ML, bridging the gap between research and real-world implementation on AWS. You should understand the security and compliance requirements for ML/GenAI implementations. You should have experience architecting end-to-end ML/GenAI agentic applications for customers using AWS services and the Well-Architected Framework. As the ideal candidate, you bring a deep data science background and the business acumen required to lead complex engagements with large enterprises. You have hands-on expertise in statistical modeling, traditional ML, and current areas such as LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, AI system evaluation, prompt engineering, agents, and AIOps. You are able to credibly advise senior technical and executive stakeholders on architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation. Key job responsibilities - Working with NAMER Enterprise customers' development and data science teams to deeply understand their business and technical needs. Design and implement solutions that make the best use of the AWS cloud platform and AWS AI/ML services including SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon AgentCore, and other AI/ML services. - Customer Advisor — Implement and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning and Generative AI solutions. Build prototypes, PoCs, and explore new solutions. Interact closely with enterprise customers to accelerate their AI/ML adoption. - Partner with Data Scientists, SAs, Sales, Business Development, and the AI/ML Service teams to accelerate customer adoption and revenue attainment in NAMER for Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, and related services that support GenAI use cases. - Thought Leadership – Evangelize AWS GenAI services and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures, and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent, etc. - Act as a technical liaison between customers and the Amazon Bedrock or other service teams to provide customer-driven product improvement feedback. - Develop and support an AWS internal community of GenAI-related subject matter experts in the AMERICAS. Create field enablement materials for the broader technical population, to help them understand how to integrate AWS GenAI solutions into customer architectures. A day in the life Your day will be dynamic and impactful. You'll engage with enterprise business leaders, dive deep into ML architectures and data science pipelines, and craft transformative AI strategies. You'll collaborate across teams, translating complex statistical and AI concepts into clear, actionable solutions that drive meaningful business outcomes for NAMER Enterprise customers. About the team Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. Mentorship & Career Growth We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.
  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 10535487
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Are you passionate about data, enjoy solving complex analytical problems, leveraging industry leading agentic AI technologies to derive insight at scale - all in a challenging, fast-paced environment? We are seeking an Applied Scientist to accelerate the growth of Amazon Internal Audit’s Data Science & Risk Intelligence initiatives. The team builds ML and AI solutions that expand self-service data utilization by audit teams, utilizing the right methods to derive deeper patterns, and surface insights to gain holistic perspectives while amplifying potential risk mitigation. Key job responsibilities - Partner with audit teams, product managers, engineers, and scientists to define and deliver machine learning and generative AI products that carry significant ambiguity, scale, and complexity, owning problems end-to-end, from framing through measurable impact. - Design, build, and own agentic AI systems, including multi-agent workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, and tool-using agents, that automate and augment audit work, and set the standard for how the team evaluates them through rigorous LLM-as-judge and human-aligned evaluation. - Apply statistical analysis and classical machine learning using SQL and scripting languages like Python/R over large datasets to develop insights and recommendations that strengthen internal audit. - Architect secure, scalable solutions on AWS machine learning and generative AI services (e.g., Bedrock, AgentCore, SageMaker), owning the full lifecycle from design through production deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. - Own and evolve the team's production and experimentation infrastructure, including deployment pipelines, observability and tracing, and evaluation harnesses. - Drive applied research by identifying and pursuing emerging techniques, and disseminate findings through internal and external publications, talks, and journal clubs. - Raise the technical bar across the team, including mentor junior scientists and engineers, review designs and code, and help shape the product and technical roadmap. A day in the life As an Applied Scientist, you will own ambiguous, high-impact problems and help shape the technical roadmap that connects risk to Amazon. You will drive AI products that make audit work more effective and efficient, increasingly centered on LLM and agentic systems. You set technical direction across the full arc of applied science. That means framing problems, making architecture decisions, defining how the team evaluates quality, and delivering solutions in production. The ideal candidate pairs deep machine learning expertise with a builder's instinct for production architecture. They thrive on ambiguity, mentor others, and follow a fast-moving research frontier. About the team Internal Audit’s mission is to help our businesses improve controllership, operational efficiency, and customer experience.
  • (Updated 2 days ago)
    Amazon’s Customer Behavior Analytics org is looking for an Applied Scientist to spearhead the rapid growth of our Marketing Measurement solutions. The team focuses on building scalable ML and causal inference solutions to estimate the effectiveness of Amazon marketing efforts and provide actionable insights to the various marketing teams within Amazon. This is a high-impact role with opportunities to develop systems that affect investments to the size of billions of dollars. We work closely with business stakeholders and strive to continuously produce tangible impact on the company’s strategic and tactical planning and operations. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big and be creative, while still paying careful attention to detail. You should be able to translate how data represents the customer journey, be comfortable dealing with large and complex data sets, and have experience using machine/deep learning at scale to solve business problems. You should have strong analytical and communication skills, be able to work with product managers and software teams to define key business questions and work with the analytics team to solve them. You will apply your expertise in ML/DL, statistics, and data-wrangling to identify opportunities for further research and to provide insights that drive larger initiatives. You will join a highly collaborative and diverse working environment that will empower you to shape the future of Amazon marketing, as well allow you to be part of the large science community within the Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization. Key job responsibilities The main responsibilities for this position include: - Apply your expertise in Transformer models, LLMs, ML/DL and statistical modeling to develop solutions and systems that describe how Amazon’s marketing campaigns impact customers’ actions - Own the end-to-end development of novel causal inference models that address the most pressing needs of our business stakeholders and help guide their future actions - Improve upon and simplify our existing solutions and frameworks - Review and audit modeling processes and results from other scientists, both junior and senior - Work with marketing leadership to align our measurement plan with business strategy - Formalize assumptions about how our models are expected to behave and explain why they are reasonable - Identify new opportunities that are suggested by the data insights - Bring a department-wide perspective into decision making - Develop and document scientific research to be shared with the greater science community at Amazon About the team The Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization owns Amazon’s insights pipeline, from data collection to deep analytics. We aspire to be the place where Amazon teams come for answers, a trusted source for data and insights that empower our systems and business leaders to make better decisions. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams’ decisions and thus how Amazon customers see, use, and value their experience.
  • CN, 31, Shanghai
    Job ID: 10509781
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Worldwide Global Selling has been helping individuals and businesses increase sales and reach new customers around the globe. Today, more than 50% of Amazon's total unit sales come from third-party selection. The Global Selling team in China is responsible for recruiting local businesses to sell on Amazon's 19+ overseas marketplaces and supporting local Sellers' success and growth on Amazon. Our vision is to be the first choice for all types of Chinese business to go globally. The Worldwide Global Selling Analytics, Intelligence, and Technology (WWGS-AIT) team serves as the research, automation, and insight arm of the International Seller Service data hub, enabling rapid delivery of growth insights through strategic investments in regional data foundations, self-service business intelligence solutions, and artificial intelligence tools. The WWGS-AIT team is positioned to establish AI-ready foundational capabilities across the WWGS organization while maintaining excellence in business insight generation, and self-service BI/AI application development. WWGS-AIT is looking for a Data Scientist to build reusable science capabilities that support seller growth, operational decision-making, and cross-domain innovation across Worldwide Global Selling. You will lead high-impact modeling initiatives at the intersection of graph science, machine learning, simulation, and optimization. Your initial focus will include building identity-resolution and entity-linkage capabilities that create a trusted One ID view across fragmented seller and business data; developing simulation and decision models for logistics and inventory options; and establishing reusable modeling foundations for seller lifecycle and other cross-domain use cases. You will also partner with business, product, engineering, and analytics teams to evaluate and deliver prioritized science opportunities through a common intake process. This role is ideal for a hands-on scientist who can move from ambiguous business problems to robust, production-ready models and decision systems. Key job responsibilities Lead the design, development, and productionization of graph-based identity-resolution and entity-linkage models that connect seller, account, business, logistics, and other relevant entities into a trusted One ID foundation. Develop simulation, optimization, forecasting, and decision-support models for logistics, inventory, and related operational choices; quantify trade-offs, uncertainty, and expected business impact. Establish scalable model-development practices, including feature engineering, experiment design, model validation, monitoring, reproducibility, documentation, and responsible-use controls. Translate ambiguous business questions into clear science problems, measurable hypotheses, model requirements, and decision frameworks. Partner with Data Engineering, BIE, Product, and domain teams to build reliable data pipelines, model features, evaluation datasets, and production model interfaces. Support prioritized science needs from Supply Chain, Seller Success, and other teams through the WWGS-AIT operating-planning intake and prioritization process. Define model performance, business-impact, and operational-success metrics; use offline evaluation, back-testing, simulation, and controlled experiments to continuously improve solutions. Contribute applied AI and GenAI expertise where it improves science-enabled products—for example, model evaluation, retrieval/ranking, intelligent decision support, or AI-agent capabilities grounded in trusted data and models. Influence the WWGS science roadmap by identifying opportunities to convert repeated business problems into durable, reusable data and modeling capabilities.
  • US, WA, Redmond
    Job ID: 10509454
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. 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. We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist to help architect state-of-the-art test infrastructure and lead the development of data models and analysis tools to represent the ground truth about satellite test results in order to facilitate important business decisions. Our team is responsible for core infrastructure and tools that will serve as the backbone of automated satellite testing operations to enable rapid scaling of manufacturing processes. Key job responsibilities * Work with engineering, software and manufacturing teams to understand drivers, impacts, and key influences on satellite performance * Lead the design, build and implementation of production models and make decisions in real time for satellite test results * Drive actions at scale to optimize test methodology and drive increases to satellite reliability * Analysis and modeling of satellite telemetry from test results in lab and on-orbit * Develop models and data pipelines for satellite telemetry * Create and manage datasets for continued pre-training and supervised fine-tuning of LLMs * Develop scalable visualizations for analysis of satellite performance A day in the life As Amazon Leo Data Scientist you will own the architecture definition and development of data analysis tools to to aid engineering and production teams in deciding flight-worthiness of each Amazon Leo satellite and historical traceability tools to enable simplified discovery and interpretation of past test data. You will work with multiple engineering, software and manufacturing teams across ground and space systems, to specify requirements, define data collection, interpretation strategies, data pipelines and implement data analysis and reporting tools for Integrated Vehicle tests. Your focus will be in optimizing the analysis of test results to enable Amazon Leo production plans. About the team The Automated Vehicle Testing Team is a mix of scientists and software engineers responsible for data infrastructure, tools, and research that serve as the backbone of automated satellite testing operations to enable rapid scaling of manufacturing processes.
  • (Updated 17 days ago)
    Join us at the forefront of Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements that support Amazon's long-term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. We are looking for a Senior Research Scientist to join our growing Sustainability team to drive the science behind value chain decarbonization. This role will establish Amazon's scientific methodologies for sector- and cross-sectoral decarbonization mechanisms and establish benchmarks for automated validation and risk assessment. As a Senior Research Scientist, you will be responsible for independently leading assessments of environmental issues across the full spectrum of Amazon businesses and evaluating sustainability impacts across the value chain. You will independently develop quality frameworks and methodologies that enable Amazon to scale procurement of high-quality environmental interventions while maintaining scientific rigor and environmental integrity. Key job responsibilities - Develop quality assessment frameworks for complex environmental interventions, baseline-setting approaches, and measurement methodologies - Build quantitative benchmark and statistical models that enable scalable evaluation across heterogeneous data sources - Create attribution methodologies for supply chain interventions across Amazon's diverse footprint - Develop social and environmental safeguard criteria that integrate community impact assessments - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including procurement, sustainability operations, and business units to translate scientific methodologies into operational requirements - Work under the direction of senior business leaders while acting as lead Subject Matter Expert for value chain decarbonization science, including designing and leading research, data collection, modeling, documentation, interpretation, and validation About the team Diverse Experiences: Worldwide Sustainability values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Inclusive Team Culture: It’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (inclusive diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth: We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10517856
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    Have you ever wanted to solve a mystery or be part of solving a case? Are you fascinated by detective stories or crime shows on TV? Do you love to catch bad actors, build ML models and solve complex problems. If so, working on the WWOS Tech team as an Applied Scientist is the place for you! We detect theft, fraud and organized crime happening across our global supply chain and operations for millions of items, for hundreds of product lines worth billions of dollars of inventory world-wide. We foster new game-changing ideas, creating ever more intelligent and self-learning systems to maximize the cost savings of Amazon's inventory losses. The primary role of an Applied Scientist within Amazon is to address business challenges through building a compelling case, and using data to influence change across the organization. This individual will be given responsibility on their first day to own those business challenges and the autonomy to think strategically and make data driven decisions. Decisions and tools made in this role will have significant impact to the customer experience, as it will have a major impact on all the fraud investigations happening across Amazon operations. Ideal candidates will be a high potential, strategic and analytic graduate with a PhD in ( Research, Statistics, Engineering, and Supply Chain) ready for challenging opportunities in the core of our world class operations space. Great candidates have a history of building fraud detections, detecting organized crime and the ability to use data and research to make changes. This individual will need to be able to work with a team, but also be comfortable making decisions independently, in what is often times an ambiguous environment. Key job responsibilities - Own KPIs that measure theft/fraud management performance and efficiencies. - Detect and automate theft, fraud MOs - Detect organized crime rings and bad actor clusters - Perform end to end evaluation of operational defects, system gaps, and scaling challenges (both system and operational). - Contribute to the overall fraud management and product development strategies. - Present key learnings and vision to stakeholders and leadership. - Integrate ML detection models via software applications About the team We believe that building a culture that is welcoming and inclusive is integral to people doing their best work and is essential to what we can achieve as a company. We actively recruit people from diverse backgrounds to build a supportive and inclusive workplace. Our team puts a high value on work-live balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.
  • (Updated 3 days ago)
    Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS), Data & Science team is seeking an Applied Scientist to join our Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Supply Chain Science team. In this role, you will help build forecasting models that drive labor planning across the Amazon Grocery Network, where forecast misses can lead directly to staffing inefficiencies, higher costs, and degraded customer experience. You will contribute to the development and deployment of demand and labor forecasting models using Time-series, Bayesian and Structural methods, and Machine Learning. Senior scientists on the team will partner with you to scope problems and review designs, giving you room to build depth in forecasting science and production ML. You will also work directly with engineering partners, product owners, and business stakeholders, so you will see how your models change the decisions they make. Forecasts directly inform downstream labor and capacity decisions, so understanding how errors affect stakeholders is as important as improving accuracy. You will participate in design and roadmap discussions, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners, and develop judgment about the trade-offs in the systems you contribute to. We are investing in Generative AI to advance forecasting workflows, moving from human-in-the-loop to AI-in-the-loop decision support. Opportunities include automating forecast overrides for known events, identifying persistent bias, and augmenting planner and scientist judgment with agentic tools. Key job responsibilities - Develop, evaluate, and deploy components of our demand and labor forecasting models, including statistical time-series, Bayesian, and machine-learning models with distributional objectives, with input and guidance from senior scientists. - Translate business problems into well-defined scientific solutions with clear objectives, constraints, and success metrics, partnering with senior scientists on the more ambiguous ones. - Analyze forecast performance and downstream impact on labor planning and capacity decisions; develop metrics that reflect business outcomes, not only forecast accuracy. - Prototype and evaluate Generative AI approaches in our forecasting workflows and help productionize the ones that succeed. - Partner with engineering teams to produce models, contribute to data pipelines, and build scalable, maintainable forecasting systems. - Monitor deployed models, investigate performance issues, and continuously improve model quality and calibration. - Communicate technical concepts and recommendations clearly through documentation, presentations, and design reviews with scientists, engineers, product managers, and business leaders. - Contribute to the internal scientific community through knowledge sharing and, where appropriate, research publications.
  • US, WA, Redmond
    Job ID: 10509604
    (Updated 22 days ago)
    At Amazon, we’re inventing on behalf of customers, and with Amazon Leo, we’re redefining what global connectivity looks like. Our mission is to deliver fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world through a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Every system we build helps connect people to education, healthcare, opportunity, and each other. As a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for developing advanced analytics and machine learning solutions for user terminals. You will develop predictive models to proactively identify possible user terminal failures in the field. You will work in a collaborative environment with a multi-disciplinary team, including constellation, RF, antenna, silicon, algorithm, and software engineers. Key job responsibilities As a Data Scientist, you will develop analytic tools for a team developing current and future user terminals. Your responsibilities include: • Develop statistical and analytical tool to enable the regression decision from on-orbit and lab measurement of user terminals • Publish documents and create compelling visualizations and presentations to communicate insights to stakeholders • Create and manage datasets for continued pre-training and supervised fine-tuning of LLMs • Develop scalable visualizations for analysis of user terminal performance • Work closely with constellation, RF, antenna, silicon, algorithm, and software engineers to root-cause the failures using data as the primary tool • Drive consensus on metrics and analysis approaches to support product development strategy 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. A day in the life As a Data Scientist in the LEO Customer Terminal Team, you will work daily with satellite constellation, algorithm, RF, antenna, silicon, hardware, and software teams in a collaborative environment. Your focus will be using data as an intelligence source to enable design decisions for the team. About the team The LEO Customer Terminal team is responsible for developing both outdoor and indoor devices that enable customers to access internet service via the LEO satellite network. We own the entire process from early prototypes through mass production, including requirements documentation, architecture definition, hardware development, algorithm development, and all integration and verification testing.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10508073
    (Updated 22 days ago)
    MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Research Scientist II Job Location: New York, New York Job Number: AMZ9898222 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. Amazon.com 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. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.#0000

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