Manager, Research Science — Seattle

Manager, Research Science

Job ID 207276
Location US-WA-Seattle
Posted Date 2/21/2013
Company Amazon Corporate LLC

Position Category Research Science
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Job Description
Amazon.com is looking for a motivated individual with strong analytical skills to join our Supply Chain Optimization team.

As a member of this team, he or she will play an integral part in Amazon.coms inventory management by successfully partnering with various operations, IT, retail, and finance teams to support new business initiatives.
Technical Responsibilities:
- Interact with various software and business groups to develop an understanding of their business requirements and operational processes.
- Apply the acquired knowledge and business judgment to build decision-supporting and operational tools to improve the bottom line.
- Build quantitative mathematical models to represent a wide range of supply chain, transportation and logistics systems.
- Implement these models and tools through the use of modeling languages such as AMPL and by engineering code in software languages such as C, C++, Java, and SQL on Linux and Windows operations systems.
- Perform quantitative, economic, and numerical analysis of the performance of these systems under uncertainty using statistical and optimization tools such as R and XPRESS to find both exact and heuristic solution strategies for optimization problems.
- Create computer simulations to support operational decision-making. Identify areas with potential for improvement and work with internal teams to generate requirements that can realize these improvements.
- Apply theories of mathematical optimization, including linear programming, combinatorial optimization, integer programming, dynamic programming, network flows and algorithms to design optimal or near optimal solution methodologies to be used by in-house decision support tools and software.
- Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies.

Leadership Responsibilities:
- Can present and defend company-wide technical decisions to the internal technical community and represent the company effectively at technical conferences.
- Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions. Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker.
- Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues.
- Plays a significant role in hiring great scientists and leads.
- Expertly skilled at evaluating technical skills in a candidate and helping teams make the right long term hiring decision.
Basic Qualifications
Ph.D. degree in Math, CS, OR or a closely related field. More than 5 years of industrial/academic experience in supply chain management, inventory management, large scale simulation, and mathematical modeling.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with machine learning and Big Data Analytics.