Amazon Robotics (AR) Science Tooling And Research (STAR) team builds models, run analytics and setup tools to support the performance improvement of the entire AR system. This includes operational and software scaling characteristics, bottlenecks, and robustness to “chaos monkey” stresses -- we inform critical engineering and business decisions about Amazon’s approach to robotic fulfillment.
Requirements
- Master's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science, or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of professional or military experience
- 1+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- 1+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience
- Experience with clustered data processing (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Map-reduce, and Hive)
- Experience with AWS Solutions, including EC2, S3, Redshift, EMR (or Hadoop)
Responsibilities
- design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems
- collaborate closely with other research and robotics experts to design and run experiments
- research new algorithms
- find new ways to improve Amazon Robotics analytics to optimize the Customer experience
- partner with technology and product leaders to solve business problems using scientific approaches
- build new tools and invent business insights that surprise and delight our customers
- work to quantify system performance at scale, and to expand the breadth and depth of our analysis to increase the ability of software components and warehouse processes
Other
- If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you!
- At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets.
- If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
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