Research Scientist, EU GTS Network design Analytics
Luxembourg, Luxembourg, LUX
Amazon.com
Free shipping on millions of items. Get the best of Shopping and Entertainment with Prime. Enjoy low prices and great deals on the largest selection of everyday essentials and other products, including fashion, home, beauty, electronics, Alexa...Have you ever wished to build high standard Operations Research and Machine Learning algorithms to optimize one of the most complex logistics network?
Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon websites and wondered how it got delivered to you so fast, and what kinds of algorithms & processes are running behind the scenes to power the whole operation? If so, this role is for you.
Amazon’s EU Global Transportation Services Network Design Analytics team is seeking a highly skilled Research Scientist. Your role will focus on solving complex problems that impact our organization, particularly in developing advanced models for optimizing Amazon’s transportation network.
You are the person we are looking for if you have:
- Good problem-solving abilities and technical curiosity.
- Commitment to high standards in code performance and inventiveness.
- Persistent ownership over research topics: you are proactive and bring your own ideas to the table.
- Excellent communication skills to engage with various stakeholders inside the company.
Key job responsibilities
- Use state-of-the-art optimization techniques from the scientific literature to develop optimization models that have a direct impact on the real-life transportation network.
- Explore pioneering modellings to solve the Amazon peculiar challenges, leveraging the access to data and computing power we have in house to bridge two seemingly separated fields: Operations Research and Machine Learning.
- Collaborate closely with various stakeholders to develop a deep understanding of the problem.
- Ensure your model can go to production by following high coding standards and seeking fast runtime.
A day in the life
You will typically engage in a mix of activities like conducting experiments, reviewing scientific literature, analyzing data, developing algorithms, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and often presenting findings. You will be involved in brainstorming sessions with your scientific peers, actively participate in code reviews and paper reviews. The day involves a blend of hands-on research, coding, meetings, data analysis, and contributions to publications.
About the team
Our team is a very dynamic technical team where we foment learning and development on top of all. We believe in learn by doing and having ownership are the best ways to develop knowledge and career. We are structured by functional skills and we partner and learn from one another.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Luxembourg, LUX
Basic Qualifications
- Interest and experience in Operations Research, and more specifically in discrete optimization, in fields such as Mixed-Integer Programming, Local Search and Constraint Programming.
- Experience with optimization solvers along with their implementation.
- Experience in Machine Learning and Deep Learning, not limited to the use of off-the-shelf solution, with the eagerness of developing your own models.
- Proven ability to code in a scripting language (Python/R...) for prototyping and a programming language (C/C++/Java...) for close to bare-metal performance.
- Interest in high coding standards: Git, CI/CD, unit testing, test-driven development
Preferred Qualifications
ENGLISH VERSION:- Experience with stochastic and/or robust optimization.
- Experience in one of the following Machine Learning fields: Graph Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks or Reinforcement Learning. Bonus point if these were used within an optimization context.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new programming languages.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: CI/CD Data analysis Deep Learning Git Java Machine Learning Privacy Prototyping Python R Reinforcement Learning Research Security TDD Testing
Perks/benefits: Career development
More jobs like this
Explore more AI, ML, Data Science career opportunities
Find even more open roles in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Big Data, and Data Science in general - ordered by popularity of job title or skills, toolset and products used - below.
- Open Marketing Data Analyst jobs
- Open Lead Data Analyst jobs
- Open MLOps Engineer jobs
- Open Senior Business Intelligence Analyst jobs
- Open Data Engineer II jobs
- Open Principal Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Manager jobs
- Open Power BI Developer jobs
- Open Data Scientist II jobs
- Open Sr Data Engineer jobs
- Open Business Data Analyst jobs
- Open Junior Data Scientist jobs
- Open Data Analytics Engineer jobs
- Open Product Data Analyst jobs
- Open Business Intelligence Developer jobs
- Open Data Analyst Intern jobs
- Open Sr. Data Scientist jobs
- Open Senior Data Architect jobs
- Open Big Data Engineer jobs
- Open Manager, Data Engineering jobs
- Open Principal Data Scientist jobs
- Open Azure Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Quality Analyst jobs
- Open Junior Data Engineer jobs
- Open Research Scientist jobs
- Open Data quality-related jobs
- Open GCP-related jobs
- Open Java-related jobs
- Open Business Intelligence-related jobs
- Open ML models-related jobs
- Open Data management-related jobs
- Open Privacy-related jobs
- Open PhD-related jobs
- Open Deep Learning-related jobs
- Open Finance-related jobs
- Open Data visualization-related jobs
- Open PyTorch-related jobs
- Open APIs-related jobs
- Open TensorFlow-related jobs
- Open NLP-related jobs
- Open Consulting-related jobs
- Open Snowflake-related jobs
- Open LLMs-related jobs
- Open Generative AI-related jobs
- Open CI/CD-related jobs
- Open Kubernetes-related jobs
- Open Hadoop-related jobs
- Open Data governance-related jobs
- Open Airflow-related jobs
- Open Databricks-related jobs