Lead Applied Scientist, FBA Optimization & AI

Socket.dev; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 199,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs and sign-on payments

Job summary

Amazon’s FBA organization seeks a Principal Applied Scientist to own the science strategy for optimization across its end-to-end supply chain. You will work with scientists, economists, and data scientists to design, implement, and scale algorithms that improve inventory routing, capacity allocation, and pricing decisions impacting millions of sellers.

You will influence product managers, engineers, and leadership, mentor junior scientists, and push forward frontier AI approaches to accelerate

Qualifications

• PhD, or Master's degree and 10+ years of applied research experience
• Experience with supply chain optimization, demand forecasting, inventory management, or transportation/logistics algorithms.
• Strength in mechanism design, auction theory, or game theory, particularly in settings involving strategic agents, capacity allocation, or market-based resource allocation.
• Experience with reinforcement learning applied to sequential decision-making in operations or supply chain contexts.
• Proven ability to influence senior leadership and drive alignment across multiple organizations.
• Track record of translating ambiguous business problems into well-defined science solutions with measurable impact.
• Proven ability to work effectively across product, engineering, and science teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the science strategy and development of inventory routing, replenishment, product selection, mechanism design, and transportation distribution algorithms that power FBA's supply chain across Amazon's fulfillment network.
• Design and implement large-scale optimization algorithms and incentive-compatible mechanisms for marketplace challenges, including auction design and pricing strategies.
• Partner with Product Managers and Software Engineers to translate ambiguous business challenges into well-scoped science initiatives, and build and deploy production-grade solutions that operate reliably at scale across a network serving millions of sellers.
• Influence senior leaders on technical and business direction, identify and propose new science investment areas, and represent the science perspective across organizations.
• Mentor and develop junior scientists, raise the technical bar for the broader science community, and drive adoption of emerging research methods across the team.

Skills

Operations Research

Reinforcement Learning

Optimization

Economics / Modeling

Data Analysis

Education

PhD or Master's degree

Job description

Amazon’s FBA organization seeks a Principal Applied Scientist to own the science strategy for optimization across its end-to-end supply chain. You will work with scientists, economists, and data scientists to design, implement, and scale algorithms that improve inventory routing, capacity allocation, and pricing decisions impacting millions of sellers.

You will influence product managers, engineers, and leadership, mentor junior scientists, and push forward frontier AI approaches to accelerate