Data Scientist, Amazon
Demand Forecasting
$125.5-212.8k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$125.5-212.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of machine learning, statistical modeling, data mining, and analytics techniques experience
- 2+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- 2+ years of data scientist experience
- Bachelor's degree
Desirable
- Master's degree, or PhD
- 2+ years of implementing deep learning models in a production environment
- Experience processing, filtering, and presenting large quantities (Millions to Billions of rows) of data
- Natural curiosity and desire to learn
- Experience in forecasting and time series is a plus
What the job involves
- The Amazon Demand Forecasting team seeks a Data Scientist with strong analytical and communication skills to join our team
- We develop sophisticated algorithms that involve learning from large amounts of data, such as prices, promotions, similar products, and a product’s attributes, in order to forecast the demand of over 190 million products world-wide
- These forecasts are used to automatically order more than $200 million worth of inventory weekly, establish labor plans for tens of thousands of employees, and predict the company’s financial performance
- The work is complex and important to Amazon
- With better forecasts we drive down supply chain costs, enabling the offer of lower prices and better in-stock selection for our customers
- Continuously innovate through research and the application of the latest deep learning techniques to drive accuracy improvement
- Perform exploratory data analysis to identify business opportunities and develop a plan to address them
- Communicating verbally and in writing to business customers with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our systems, as well as sharing insights and recommendations
- Contribute to Amazon's global science community through collaboration and publication of groundbreaking research
- Engage in research projects that contribute to the wider scientific community, sharing findings through publications in top-tier journals and conferences
- Utilizing code (Python, R, Scala, SQL etc.) for analyzing data and building statistical and deep learning models
- Your role will include analyzing billions of rows of data using SQL/EMR, performing statistical analysis, and implementing cutting-edge neural network models on large datasets
- As a successful data scientist on our Demand Forecasting team, you will leverage your analytical skills and business knowledge to address current challenges through collaboration with scientists, engineering, and business teams
- You will also be responsible for communicating complex insights and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, helping to drive innovation
- For scientists passionate about impactful research in deep learning and AI, our team offers a dynamic and fulfilling environment to make a tangible difference in the field and Amazon's operations
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
- Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
- 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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