Amazon Sr Applied Scientist Last Mile Planning 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

263642346

Key job responsibilities
• Design and develop advanced mathematical, optimization models and apply them to define strategic and tactical needs and drive the appropriate business and technical solutions in the areas of routing planning, supply chain optimization, network optimization, economics, and control theory.
• Apply mathematical optimization and control techniques (linear, quadratic, SOCP, robust, stochastic, dynamic, mixed-integer programming, network flows, nonlinear, nonconvex programming, decomposition methods, model predictive control) and algorithms to design optimal or near optimal solution methodologies to be used by in-house decision support tools and software.
• Research, prototype, simulate, and experiment with these models by using modeling languages such as Python or R; participate in the production level deployment.
• Create, enhance, and maintain technical documentation
• Present to other Scientists, Product, and Software Engineering teams, as well as Stakeholders.
• Lead project plans from a scientific perspective by managing product features, technical risks, milestones and launch plans.
• Influence organization's long-term roadmap and resourcing, onboard new technologies onto Science team's toolbox, mentor other Scientists.

- 3+ 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

- 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.