Sr. Simulation Scientist, Amazon Logistics

Amazon Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Simulation Scientist to advance digital twin and simulation initiatives across the Last Mile network.

You will build and optimize discrete event simulations, physics-based models, and robotics-inspired workflows, partnering with diverse teams to influence operational decisions. You will apply advanced methodologies, balance cross-functional trade-offs, and mentor peers while delivering scalable simulation solutions and clear, data-driven recommendations for future

Qualifications

• Experience leading simulation projects in DES and digital twin contexts.
• Ability to communicate insights to audiences with varying technical backgrounds.
• Proficiency in Python or another object-oriented language for data analysis and modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of simulation data science solutions for complex operational processes using DES software.
• Drive strategic modeling and simulation research to inform process design decisions.
• Establish best practices in simulation science and accelerate development of discrete event models.

Tools

FlexSim

AnyLogic

Emulate 3D

Job description

Are you inspired by invention? Do you want to see how your work impacts the bigger picture? If yes, you'll fit right in at Amazon's Last Mile Simulations and Analytics Engineering team.

The WW AMZL Simulations and Analytics Engineering team drives innovation across our Last Mile network delivery stations through digital twin technology and the seamless integration of process engineering, physics, design, technology, and robotics. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do. If you're interested in joining a rapidly growing team building a unique, solutions-advisory group with a relentless focus on the customer, you've come to the right place.

This is a blue-sky role where you'll roll up your sleeves and dive into big data sets to build digital twins-discrete event simulations, robotics models, and physics-based 3D simulations using tools like Flexsim, AnyLogic, and Emulate 3D. You'll develop experimentation systems at scale, integrating process workflows, physical dynamics, facility design, emerging technologies, and robotic automation to create comprehensive virtual replicas of our operations. Build optimization algorithms and leverage advanced technologies across Amazon. This is an opportunity to think big about solving challenging problems for our customers.

As a Sr. Simulation Scientist, you'll deep dive into complex problems and drive relentlessly towards innovative solutions with cross-functional teams. You'll interface and influence various functional teams and individuals at all levels of the organization. Lead strategic digital twin and simulation projects that integrate process design, physics modeling, technology innovation, and robotics to drive operational decisions. Your expertise in synthesizing and communicating insights to audiences of varying technical sophistication will enable you to answer specific business questions and innovate for the future. You'll apply advanced multi-disciplinary methodologies-combining process optimization, physics simulation, design thinking, and robotic systems-to complex use cases across the Last Mile network. You'll also contribute to the end-state vision for digital twin simulation and experimentation of future delivery stations at Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of the simulation data science solutions to perform system of systems discrete event simulations for significantly complex operational processes that have a long-term impact on a product, business, or function using FlexSim, Demo 3D, AnyLogic or any other Discrete Event Simulation (DES) software packages
• Lead strategic modeling and simulation research projects to drive process design decisions
• Be an exemplary practitioner in simulation science discipline to establish best practices and simplify problems to develop discrete event simulations faster with higher standards
• Identify and tackle intrinsically hard process flow simulation problems (e.g., highly complex, ambiguous, undefined, with less existing structure, or having significant business risk or potential for significant impact
• Deliver artifacts that set the standard in the organization for excellence, from process flow control algorithm design to validation to implementations to technical documents using simulations
• Be a pragmatic problem solver by applying judgment and simulation experience to balance cross-organization trade-offs between competing interests and effectively influence, negotiate, and communicate with internal and external business partners, contractors and vendors for multiple simulation projects
• Provide simulation data and measurements that influence the business strategy of an organization. Write effective white papers and artifacts while documenting your approach, simulation outcomes, recommendations, and arguments
• Lead and actively participate in reviews of simulation research science solutions. You bring clarity to complexity, probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding within simulation data science discipline
• Pay a significant role in the career development of others, actively mentoring and educating the larger simulation data science community on trends, technologies, and best practices
• Use advanced statistical /simulation tools and develop codes (python or another object oriented language) for data analysis , simulation, and developing modeling algorithms
• Lead and coordinate simulation efforts between internal teams and outside vendors to develop optimal solutions for the network, including equipment specification, material flow control logic, process design, and site layout
• Deliver results according to project schedules and quality

A day in the life

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you're passionate about this role and want