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Job Field: Office Jobs
Location: SEATTLE, WA
Salary: $-
Job Type: Part Time

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               <td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;">Senior Operations Research Scientist, Modeling and Optimization, Amazon Fulfillment Services<BR><BR><BR><BR>Job ID: 190992<BR>Location: US-WA-Seattle<BR><BR>Posted Date: 9/27/2012<BR>Company: Amazon Corporate LLC<BR><BR>Position Category: Research Science <BR>Apply for This Position<BR><BR>* Apply for this position online<BR>* E-mail this position to a friend<BR>Position Details<BR>Job Description<BR>Amazon Fulfillment Services is looking for a motivated individual with strong numerical optimization and analysis skills and practical inventory modeling experience to join our Modeling and Optimization team. The position is for a senior-level scientist. The qualified candidate will have experience implementing numerical optimization methods designed for inventory, network and combinatorial optimization.<BR><BR>Amazon.com is a $48 billion dollar company that is growing rapidly. Because we are driven by faster delivery to customers, a more efficient supply chain network, and lower cost of operations, our main focus is in the development of analytical modeling and visualization tools fed by our massive amounts of available data. You will be responsible for building these analytical tools that improve the economics of the North American, European, and Japanese fulfillment networks as Amazon increases the speed and decreases the cost to deliver product to customers. You will identify and evaluate opportunities to reduce variable costs by improving the fulfillment network topology, inventory placement, transportation operations and scheduling, fulfillment center processes, and the execution to operational plans. You will also improve the efficiency of capital investment by helping the fulfillment centers to improve storage utilization and the effective use of automation. Finally, you will help create the metrics to quantify improvements to the fulfillment costs (e.g., transportation and labor costs) resulting from the application of these optimization models and tools.<BR><BR>The senior scientist in this role will help to improve the efficiency of Amazon fulfillment centers creating support models designed to improve storage utilization as well as make use of the effective use of automation. This role will also provide guidance in the creation of new supply-chain metrics that quantify improvements resulting from the application of these optimization models and tools.<BR><BR>The ideal candidate will have the following optimization experience and skills:<BR><BR>* Ph.D. in Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science or a related field with publications in refereed academic journals.<BR>* Experience designing and implementing optimization models in for inventory, networks and other characteristics of supply-chain systems (e.g., staff scheduling, vehicle routing, and facility location).<BR>* Good communication skills with both technical and business people. Ability to speak at a level appropriate for the audience. Experience applying these skills in both academic teaching environment and a business setting is a p                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             </font></td>
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