Senior Data Scientist - Last Mile Strategy & Automation

Socket.dev; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Last Mile Strategic Planning is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design mathematical, statistical, and optimization models to optimize the Delivery Network Topology and reduce cost to serve while increasing speed. You will partner with the scientific community to create scalable tools and collaborate with technical teams building network flow and execution systems.

You will influence business leadership and stakeholders, translate complex analyses into business narratives, and mentor

Qualifications

• 2+ years of data scientist experience.
• 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience.
• 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience.
• 1+ years of guiding and coaching a group of researchers experience.
• 1+ years of working with or evaluating AI systems experience.
• 1+ years of creating or contributing to mathematical textbooks, research papers, or educational content experience.
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop mathematical, statistical and optimization models to optimize Delivery Network Topology design.
• Manage several, high impact projects simultaneously.
• Consult and collaborate with business and technical stakeholders across multiple teams to define new opportunities to optimize Delivery Network Topology.
• Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to diverse stakeholders through technical and/or business papers.
• Leverage LLMs to improve explainability of optimization and drive engagement from volume planning, demand planning stakeholders.
• Define measurement frameworks for optimization solutions where no prior art exists and own the scientific framework for ‘Topology Plans’ multi-contact journey.
• Choose the right methods (statistical, causal, ML, LLM, hybrid) for each problem and justify trade-offs. Drive excellence in evaluation: ground-truth construction with Quality auditors, human audits, precision/recall, drift, calibration, bias, safety, and cost.
• Design driver-analysis and bridging methods explaining KPI movement (WoW, MoM, YoY, vs OP2) across dimensions for "why".
• Partner with teams in productionizing; Own AWS tech stack compliancy (Shepherd risk, App Security red-certification, Kale, Legal, Threat Models, for scientific assets)
• Mentor team members; provide promotion assessments; contribute hiring at DS II and DS III. Represent LM Planning in the broader Amazon Data Science community
• Produce design and technical documentation

Skills

Data science

Communication

Education

Master's degree in STEM

PhD preferred

Tools

SQL

Python

R

SAS

Matlab

Job description

Amazon Last Mile Strategic Planning is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design mathematical, statistical, and optimization models to optimize the Delivery Network Topology and reduce cost to serve while increasing speed. You will partner with the scientific community to create scalable tools and collaborate with technical teams building network flow and execution systems.

You will influence business leadership and stakeholders, translate complex analyses into business narratives, and mentor