Senior Applied Scientist, Fulfillment By Amazon

The Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) team is looking for a passionate, curious, and creative Senior Applied Scientist, with expertise in machine learning (ML) and a proven record of solving business problems through scalable ML solutions, to join our top-notch cross-domain FBA science team.

We want to learn seller behavior, understand seller experience, build automated LLM-based solutions to sellers, design seller policies and incentives, and develop science products and services that empower third-party sellers to grow their businesses.

We also predict potentially costly defects that may occur during packing, shipping, receiving and storing the inventory.

We aim to prevent such defects before occurring while we are also fulfilling customer demand as quickly and efficiently as possible, in addition to managing returns and reimbursements.

To do so, we build and innovate science solutions at the intersection of ML, statistics, economics, operations research, and data analytics.

As a senior applied scientist, you will propose and deploy solutions that draw from a range of scientific areas such as supervised and unsupervised learning, recommendation systems, statistical learning, LLMs, and reinforcement learning.

This role has high visibility to senior Amazon business leaders and involves working with other scientists, and partnering with engineering and product teams to integrate scientific work into production systems.

Key job responsibilities

As a senior member of the science team, you will

• play an integral role in building Amazon's FBA supply chain management system.
• Research and develop ML models to solve diverse business problems faced in seller inventory management systems.
• Define a long-term science vision and roadmap for the team, driven fundamentally from our customers' needs, translating those directions into specific plans for research.
• Drive and execute ML projects / products end-to-end : from ideation, analysis, prototyping, development, metrics, and monitoring.
• Review and audit modeling processes and results for other scientists, both junior and senior.
• Advocate the right ML solutions to business stakeholders, engineering teams, as well as executive level decision makers.

A day in the life

In this role, you will be a technical leader in ML with significant scope, impact, and visibility. As a senior scientist on the team, you will be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation, business analysis and scientific research, through to development and deployment of advanced models - giving you a real sense of ownership.

From day one, you will be working with experienced scientists, engineers, and designers who love what they do. You are expected to make decisions about technology, models, and methodology choices.

You will strive for simplicity, and demonstrate judgment backed by mathematical proof. You will also collaborate with the broader decision and research science community in Amazon to broaden the horizon of your work and mentor engineers and scientists.

The successful candidate will have strong expertise in applying ML models in an applied environment and is looking for her / his next opportunity to innovate, build, deliver, and impress.

We are seeking someone who wants to lead projects that require innovative thinking and deep technical problem-solving skills to create production-ready machine learning solutions.

The candidate will need to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a fast-paced, high-energy, highly collaborative environment.

We value highly technical people who know their subject matter deeply and are willing to learn new areas. We look for individuals who know how to deliver results and show a desire to develop themselves, their colleagues, and their career.

About the team

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service that allows sellers to outsource order fulfillment to Amazon, allowing sellers to leverage Amazon’s world-class facilities to provide customers Prime delivery promise.

Sellers gain access to Prime members worldwide, see their sales lift, and are free to focus their time and resources on what they do best while Amazon manages fulfillment.

Over the last several years, sellers have enjoyed strong business growth with FBA shipping more than half of all products offered by Amazon.

FBA focuses on helping sellers with automating and optimizing the third-party supply chain. FBA sellers leverage Amazon’s expertise in ML, optimization, data analytics, econometrics, and market design to deliver the best inventory management experience to sellers.

We work full-stack, from foundational backend systems to future-forward user interfaces. Our culture is centered on rapid prototyping, rigorous experimentation, and data-driven decision-making.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in math / statistics / engineering or other equivalent quantitative discipline
• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
• Proficiency in model development, model validation, and model implementation with big data

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD in math / statistics / engineering or other equivalent quantitative discipline
• Experience with large scale machine learning systems such as profiling and debugging and understanding of system performance and scalability
• Extensive knowledge and practical experience in several of the following areas : ML, statistics, statistical learning, deep learning, and recommendation systems
30+ days ago