Amazon Research Scientist Optimization Planning Task-Assignment Amazon Robotics 

United States, Massachusetts 

965799348

Key job responsibilities
- Research design - How should solve a particular research problem
- Research delivery - Proving/dis-proving strategies in offline data or in simulation
- Production studies - Insights from production data or ad-hoc experimentation
- Prototype implementation - Building key parts of algorithms or model prototypesA day in the life
On a typical day in this role you will work to progress your research projects, meet with engineering, systems, and solutions stakeholders, brainstorm with other scientists on the team, and participate in team processes. You will follow your research projects though the entire life cycle of design, implementation, evaluation, analysis, and will communicate your findings and results through technical papers and reports. You will consult with engineering teams as they incorporate your models and analyses into system and process designs.
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
* Planning and coordinating the paths of thousands of robots
* Dynamic allocation and scheduling of tasks to thousands of robots
* Learning how to adapt system behavior to varying operating conditions
* Co-design of robotic logistics processes and the algorithms to optimize them

- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience
- Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products
- Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets
- Knowledge of R, MATLAB, Python or similar scripting language
- Experience in planning and optimization

- Experience with any programming language such as Python, Java, C++
- Experience with experimental design
- Experience in machine learning, statistics, and deep learning