Job Description
Amazon's Optimal Inventory Health (OIH) org in Supply Chain Optimization (SCOT) group is looking for a Sr. Applied Scientist to optimize one of the most complex eCommerce systems in the world. The Optimal Inventory Health (OIH) drives long-term cash flow (LTFCF) growth by determining optimal inventory dispositions under uncertainties in demand, pricing, and supply across Amazon’s 21 marketplaces global network. OIH is in the unique position within SCOT to drive the joint optimization across supply chain and marketing across the levers of Markdowns, Removals, Deals, Sponsored Ads, and Paid Search etc. Our systems deliver hundreds of million dollars saving to Amazon each year. The Sr. Applied Scientist will lead the grocery inventory health space to optimize across inventory disposition channels and deliver best experience to Amazon customers through those levers. The role requires multidisciplinary skill sets across Reinforcement learning, Deep Learning Prediction, and Causal Inference etc. Academic and/or practical background in Transformer Architecture and Deep Reinforcement Learning are particularly relevant for this position.
This position requires drive and self-motivation, superior analytical thinking, data-driven disposition, application of technical knowledge to a business context, effective collaboration with fellow scientists, software development engineers, and product managers, effective communication of technical designs to technical and non-technical audiences, and close partnership with many stakeholders from operations, finance, IT, and business leadership.
Key job responsibilities
- Seek to understand in depth the end to end value chain of eCommerce across supply chain and marketing and identify areas of opportunities to grow our business using science solutions.
- Lead science strategy and roadmap in OIH space
- Drive alignment across organizations to achieve business goals
- Lead/guide scientists and engineers across teams to develop, test, launch and improve of science models designed to optimize inventory value and customer experience.
- Be responsible for communicating our innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community and business leadership.
- Mentor and guide the applied scientists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in ML.
A day in the life
- You will engage with Senior scientists across organizations to shape the vision of the eCommerce decision systems across supply chain and marketing.
- Our machine learning infrastructure built by talented engineering team (feature stores, template based ML pipelines and integration with experiment and production systems) will enable you to quickly prototype and iterate your innovative ideas.
- You will collaborate with talented product managers and software engineers to build the end-to-end systems.
- You will work with stakeholders across retail, supply chain, finance etc. to understand the business operation process and bottlenecks and build solution to provide the best experience to Amazon customers through automated OIH actions.
About the team
Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) is the core of the Amazon eCommerce business, which leverage science models and systems to automate the decisions and operations of the most complex supply chain in the world. Optimal Inventory Health (OIH) maximize the inventory value in Amazon through all the levers across traffic, marketing, pricing and reverse logistics.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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