Senior Applied Scientist - Sourcing Optimization & AI

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 167,100 - 226,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist for the SCOT OSS - Sourcing Execution & Performance team in Bellevue, WA. The role focuses on building systems that measure supplier capabilities, respond to supply disruptions, and optimize inbound freight across Amazon’s global network.

You will lead technical vision, mentor scientists, and collaborate across product, science, and engineering to deploy model solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical vision and drive best practices for the team's science solutions, including model evaluation frameworks, experimentation standards, code quality, and documentation
• Mentor junior scientists and raise the bar across the organization
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with product managers, science, and engineering teams to define problem frameworks, identify high-impact opportunities, and architect end-to-end model solutions for Sourcing Execution & Performance systems
• Design and execute rigorous studies and predictive modeling pipelines on large-scale datasets and experiments, establishing methodological standards for statistical validity, reproducibility, and business interpretability
• Partner with engineering to productionize science workflows driving the automation of analysis processes, building scalable measurement solutions, and ensuring models are robust, monitored, and maintainable in production environments

Skills

ML models

Deep learning

Programming: Java/C++/Python

Education

PhD or Master + 6+ years

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

numpy

scipy

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist for the SCOT OSS - Sourcing Execution & Performance team in Bellevue, WA. The role focuses on building systems that measure supplier capabilities, respond to supply disruptions, and optimize inbound freight across Amazon’s global network.

You will lead technical vision, mentor scientists, and collaborate across product, science, and engineering to deploy model solutions at scale.