Position Overview
Description
Are you passionate about solving large-scale optimization and machine learning problems that directly improve how Amazon operates? The FinAuto team is hiring a Research Scientist to support GREF, Amazon’s Global Real Estate and Facilities organization. GREF is responsible for managing Amazon’s workplace, facilities, transportation, and related operational services across a large and complex global footprint.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work on science problems where Operations Research, forecasting, machine learning, and decision optimization come together. Example problem areas include optimizing employee cab routes, forecasting transportation demand, improving facility capacity planning, optimizing vendor and resource allocation, reducing operational cost, improving service reliability, and building scalable decision systems for real-world planning problems.
Key job responsibilities
As a Research Scientist, you will translate ambiguous...