Amazon Last Mile Solutions Engineering team is looking to build out our Senior Simulation team to drive innovation across our Last Mile network, solving complex problems for customers
Requirements
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience
- Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products
- Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets
- Knowledge of R, MATLAB, Python or similar scripting language
- Experience with agile development
- Experience building web based dashboards using common frameworks
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of the simulation data science solutions to perform system of systems discrete event simulations for significantly complex operational processes
- Lead strategic modeling and simulation research projects to drive process design decisions
- Be an exemplary practitioner in simulation science discipline to establish best practices and simplify problems to develop discrete event simulations faster with higher standards
- Identify and tackle intrinsically hard process flow simulation problems
- Deliver artifacts that set the standard in the organization for excellence, from process flow control algorithm design to validation to implementations to technical documents using simulations
- Provide simulation data and measurements that influence the business strategy of an organization
- Use advanced statistical /simulation tools and develop codes (python or another object oriented language) for data analysis , simulation, and developing modeling algorithms
Other
- 4+ years of quantitative field research experience
- PhD, or Master's degree
- Ability to work with cross functional teams
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Ability to mentor and educate others
