Senior Digital Twin & DES Scientist

Amazon Inc.; Factoria (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Simulation Scientist for the Last Mile Simulations and Analytics Engineering team in Bellevue, WA. The role focuses on digital twin technology, discrete event simulations, and robotics within a cross-functional environment.

You will lead strategic simulation projects, develop optimization algorithms, and mentor others while collaborating with internal teams and external partners to influence business decisions.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree with 5+ years of quantitative field research experience.
• Experience with big data technologies (AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive).
• Experience with Python or other object oriented language for data analysis and simulation.
• Ability to communicate qualitative research methods and findings to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of the simulation data science solutions to perform system of systems DES for complex processes.
• Lead strategic modeling and simulation research projects to drive process design decisions.
• Establish best practices in simulation science and develop discrete event simulations with high standards.
• Identify hard process flow simulation problems and balance cross‑organization trade‑offs.

Skills

Python

Discrete event simulation

Big data

Education

PhD or Master’s degree

Tools

FlexSim

AnyLogic

Emulate 3D

AWS

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Simulation Scientist for the Last Mile Simulations and Analytics Engineering team in Bellevue, WA. The role focuses on digital twin technology, discrete event simulations, and robotics within a cross-functional environment.

You will lead strategic simulation projects, develop optimization algorithms, and mentor others while collaborating with internal teams and external partners to influence business decisions.