Are you up to the task of delivering innovative solutions that manages a supply chain of millions of unique products involving hundreds of thousands of suppliers and tens of millions of customers around the world? Amazon’s Optimal Sourcing System (OSS) Science team is looking for Research Scientist to build Amazon’s next generation of inventory planning and supply chain solutions to automate and optimize the decisions at scale. Our goals are to increase reliable access to supply, improve supply chain-driven vendor experience, and reduce end-to-end supply chain costs, all in service of maximizing Long-Term Free Cash Flow for Amazon. As a Research Scientist, you will work with software engineers, product managers, and business teams to understand the business problems and requirements, distill that understanding to crisply define the problem, and design and develop innovative solutions to address them. Our team is highly cross-functional and employs a wide array of scientific tools and techniques to solve key challenges, including optimization, causal inference, and machine learning/deep learning. Some critical research areas in our space include identify and optimizing the supply chain strategy with different suppliers, vendors' behavior and incentives, vendor inbound flow planning and controls.
Key job responsibilities
As a member of the OSS science team, you will play an integral part in Amazon's vendor sourcing strategy recommendation and management with the following technical and leadership responsibilities:
- Develop and prototype solutions for large scale ambiguous problems
- Set an example for other scientists with exemplary scientific analyses; and simple, intuitive, and effective solutions.
- Influence team business and engineering decisions and strategies.
- Communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders to drive alignment and build consensus on key initiatives.
- Foster collaborations between scientists across Amazon researching similar or related problems.
- Actively engage in the development of others, both within and outside the team.
- Engage with the broader scientific community through presentations, publications, and patents.
