Have you ever wondered how Amazon predicts when your order will arrive and how we ensure that it actually arrives on at the promised date/time? Have you wondered where all those Amazon semi-trucks on the road are headed? Are you passionate about increasing efficiency and reducing carbon footprint? Does the idea of having worldwide impact on Amazon's logistics network including our planes, trucks, and vans sound exciting to you? If so, then we want to talk with you! At Amazon's Fulfillment Optimization, we are tasked with optimizing the fulfillment on customer orders so that we fulfill all orders worldwide in the most intelligent manner while ensuring Amazon customers get their orders on time.
The Transportation Volume Planning team owns and operates ML and simulation systems that continually optimize the distribution of tens of millions of products across Amazon’s warehouses in the most cost-effective manner, utilizing large scale optimization techniques and distributed computing in trying to reduce overall transportation costs while improving the customer experience. We are focused on saving hundreds of millions of dollars using big data technologies, cutting edge science, machine learning, and scalable distributed software on the cloud that automates and optimizes inventory and shipments to customers under the uncertainty of demand, pricing and supply.
We’re looking for a passionate and results-oriented Software Development Manager who enjoys the challenge of diving into complex problems and solving the unsolvable to drive the key decisions. The person will lead the team of Software Development Engineers to develop large scale, fault tolerant and high availability systems.
Watch http://bit.ly/amazon-scot to get the big picture.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will…
• Collaborate with and influence a wide set of stakeholders, providing thought leadership, product expertise, and technical insight.
• Work across Transportation teams, PMs, Engineers, Scientists, BIEs, Finance, and SCOT teams to establish the network planning Roadmap.
• * Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
* Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
* Create solutions to run predictions/optimizations on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
* Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
* Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
* Manage, mentor and grow a team of SDEs
A day in the life
Every day you'll work with your direct SDEs, teams within Fulfillment Optimization and planning and stakeholders across Amazon's Supply Chain. You will set the tone through measurable goals, drive career growth for employees, and build strong relationships with peers and stakeholders to continue to improve and innovate on how we help customers use flow and capacity plans more effectively and build new solutions to enable better solutions for customers.
About the team
About the team
The Transportation Volume Planning team is part of the Fulfillment Optimization org and owns optimization and simulation systems to guide Amazon's outbound capacity planning. The team is currently spread across Seattle, Austin, TX, and New York City. The team is multi-disciplined comprising of research science, business intelligence, and software development. Come join us as we fundamentally redesign our approach to Amazon first-party fulfillment.
Watch this video to learn more about our organization,
SCOT: http://bit.ly/amazon-scot
