Economist II: Data-Driven Market Design & Forecasting

Amazon Science; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Irvine, CA is recruiting an Economist II to work with the chief economist and senior management on critical business problems across retail, cloud computing, and other domains. You will build econometric models, apply applied microeconometrics tools, and present analyses to management.

PhD-level expertise is required, with experience in forecasting, time series, and SQL-based data work. The role offers a full-time schedule and a comprehensive compensation package.

Qualifications

• PhD degree or foreign equivalent in Economics, Finance, or a related field and two years of post-doctoral research or work experience.
• Must have one year of research or work experience in private consulting, government, or academic research; use of program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, and high dimensional problems; knowledge of SQL.

Responsibilities

• Work with the chief economist and/or senior management on key business problems across retail, cloud computing, and other areas.
• Build econometric models using data systems.
• Apply economic theory to solve business problems and develop new techniques to process large data sets.
• Write up and present analyses for distribution to management at Amazon.

Skills

Economic modeling

Econometrics

Forecasting

Data analysis

Communication

Education

PhD in Economics or related field

Tools

Matlab

R

SAS

Stata

SQL

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Irvine, CA is recruiting an Economist II to work with the chief economist and senior management on critical business problems across retail, cloud computing, and other domains. You will build econometric models, apply applied microeconometrics tools, and present analyses to management.

PhD-level expertise is required, with experience in forecasting, time series, and SQL-based data work. The role offers a full-time schedule and a comprehensive compensation package.