Machine Learning Scientist

Job Description

Are you interested in building state-of-the-art machine learning systems for the most complex and fastest-growing transportation network in the world? If so, Amazon offers exciting and unprecedented challenges at this scale, including those in sustainability, such as how to reach net zero carbon by 2040.

Amazon’s transportation systems deliver millions of packages to customers worldwide faster and cheaper while providing a world-class customer experience—from online checkout to shipment planning, fulfillment, and delivery. Our software systems include services that use tens of thousands of signals every second to make business decisions impacting billions of dollars a year. These systems integrate with a network of small and large carriers worldwide, manage business rules for millions of unique products, and improve the experience of over hundreds of millions of online shoppers.

As part of this team, you will focus on the development and research of machine learning solutions and algorithms for core planning systems, as well as for other applications within Amazon Transportation Services, impacting the future of the Amazon delivery network. Current research and areas of work within our team include machine learning forecast, uncertainty quantification, planning systems, model interpretability, graph neural nets, among others.

We are looking for a Machine Learning Scientist with a strong academic background in the areas of machine learning, time series forecasting, and/or optimization.

About The Team

The EU ATS Science and Technology (SnT) team owns scalable algorithms, models, and systems that improve customer experience in the middle-mile. We work backwards from Amazon's customers aiming to make transportation faster, cheaper, safer, more reliable, and ecologically sustainable.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD, or a Master's degree and experience in CS, CE, ML, or related field
• Experience in building models for business applications
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python, or related language
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development
• Hands-on working experience in Signal Processing OR Operations Research OR Optimization skills
• 4+ years of experience in classic machine learning techniques

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