Data Scientist, Transportation Analytics & Optimization

Amazon; Factoria (WA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Transportation Services (NEST) is seeking a Data Scientist to own end-to-end analytical lifecycle—from identifying business needs to building simulation and optimization models and producing production-grade analytical tools. You will work across data processing, modeling, and data storytelling to enable stakeholders to explore billions of records interactively.

The role emphasizes building scalable pipelines and visualization frameworks, collaborating with scientists, engineers, and

Qualifications

• 2+ years of data scientist experience.
• 3+ years of SQL, scripting (Python) or statistical software experience.
• 3+ years of ML/statistical modeling and data analysis techniques.
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment.
• Experience with big data: processing, filtering, and presenting large datasets (100K+ rows).
• Bachelor's degree

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end analytical lifecycle: identify needs, frame problems, build models, narrate results.
• Design and build production-grade analytical tools and interactive data products for self-service exploration of large datasets.
• Develop and enhance simulation and optimization models for network planning and operations.
• Architect scalable data pipelines and aggregation strategies for real-time visualization.
• Develop data storytelling artifacts to communicate complex network dynamics to stakeholders.
• Build reusable visualization frameworks for transportation network data.
• Work with large-scale data platforms (Redshift, Spark, S3, Athena) to extract and model data for analysis.
• Write code (Python, SQL, Scala) for data processing, modeling, simulation, and automated workflows.
• Collaborate with Applied/Research Scientists, Engineers, and PMs to integrate tools into planning systems.
• Define best practices for data visualization performance, including sampling and progressive loading.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to leadership and business customers.

Skills

SQL

Python

R/SAS/Matlab

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

S3

Redshift

Sagemaker

EMR

Kinesis

Lambda

EC2

Job description

Amazon Transportation Services (NEST) is seeking a Data Scientist to own end-to-end analytical lifecycle—from identifying business needs to building simulation and optimization models and producing production-grade analytical tools. You will work across data processing, modeling, and data storytelling to enable stakeholders to explore billions of records interactively.

The role emphasizes building scalable pipelines and visualization frameworks, collaborating with scientists, engineers, and