Applied Scientist II, Demand Science

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Job summary
The Amazon Devices & Services Demand Planning and Product Development (DEPD) team is seeking an outstanding scientist with strong analytical and communication skills to help with demand forecasting and supply optimization for the entire Amazon device family of products, services and accessories. Amazon Devices represents a highly complex space with 100+ products across several product categories (e-readers [Kindle], tablets [Fire Tablets], smart speakers and audio assistants [Echo], wifi routers [eero], and video doorbells and cameras [Ring and Blink]), for sale both online and in offline retailers globally.

We develop scalable and robust state-of-the-art data/analytics/ML and automation solutions that involve learning from different data sources and advanced descriptive, diagnostic, predictive prescriptive and cognitive models. With better forecasts we drive down supply chain costs, enabling the offer of lower prices and better in-stock selection for our customers.

In this role, you will have an opportunity to both develop advanced scientific solutions, and drive critical customer and business impacts. You will play a key role to drive end-to-end solutions from understanding our business requirements, exploring a large amount of historical data and ML models, building prototypes and exploring conceptually new solutions, to working with partner teams for prod deployment. You will collaborate closely with scientists, engineering peers as well as business stakeholders. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for Amazon Devices and Services.

You are an individual with outstanding analytical abilities, excellent communication skills, and are comfortable working with cross-functional teams and systems. You will be responsible for researching, prototyping, experimenting, analyzing predictive models, developing smart automation solutions, and enabling ML platforms for science.

Key job responsibilities
• Research and develop new methodologies for demand forecasting, alarms, alerts and automation with advanced models and methods.
• Improve upon existing methodologies by adding new data sources and implementing model enhancements.
• Drive scalable solutions.
• Create and track accuracy and performance metrics (both technical and business metrics).
• Create, enhance, and maintain technical documentation, and present to other scientists, engineers and business leaders.
• Drive best practices on the team; mentor and guide junior members to achieve their career growth potential.

About the team
The team is a young, focused science team looking for help with validating the technical decisions we are making and figuring out how to best solve our internal and partner’s needs.

In practice, in addition to the primary job location on this job rec we are open to considering locations near major Amazon hubs including but not limited to Seattle/Bellevue WA, Arlington VA (HQ2 near DC), Austin TX, Boston MA, Denver CO, San Diego CA, and others.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD or equivalent Master’s Degree plus 4+ years of experience in CS, CE, ML or related field
• 2+ years of experience of building machine learning models for business application
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

• Proficiency in model development, model validation and model implementation.
• Strong programing skills in Python, R or Scala.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience of building machine learning models for business application
• Experience with time series modeling and machine learning forecasting.
• Good knowledge of SQL, Spark, EMR, Redshift and AWS infrastructure.
• Experience with data management and/or high performance computing.
• Experience working in command-line Linux environments.

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