Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon
Operations Research, EU Fulfillment Optimization
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Has experience to develop scalable applied science solutions
- PhD, or Master's degree
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in applied research
- Background in Operations Research highly desirable or experience in optimization of resource allocation
- Experience in building models for business application
- Able to communicate highly complex concepts to business audience
Desirable
- Hands on experience leading large-scale big data and analytics projects
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
- Experience diving into data to discover hidden patterns and of conducting error/deviation analysis
- Experience with AWS services including S3, Redshift, Sagemaker, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, and EC2
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
What the job involves
- We are based out of the EU headquarters in Luxembourg and looking for a talented and motivated Senior Applied Scientists to innovate and enhance our outbound network optimization and management products
- In this role, you will solve highly visible problems that are important for senior leaders across organizations
- With business acumen with strategic, analytical, and critical thinking, who can understand the business challenge and develop technical and algorithmic solutions to those problems
- Who understands technical software development life cycle and have experience to drive research teams towards business solutions
- Who drives strategic product communications across organizations providing clarity in decisions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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