Research Scientist Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Amazon APM (Automated Profitability Management) is looking for a Research Scientist to do statistical analyses and to build machine learning models to manage profitability of retail offers and optimize negotiations with vendors. As a Research Scientist in our group, you will be working with other scientists, software engineers, product managers and business teams to understand the current challenges in Amazon retail's profitability management related to vendors, and look for the best opportunities and strategies to optimize multiple KPIs in free cash flow, ASIN selection and vendor experience.

Responsibilities:

* Develop, prototype and help to deploy machine learning models as basis to optimize the negotiation strategies with vendors
* Design and analyze experiments (A/B testing etc.) to evaluate different strategies
* Analyze data to find business and research opportunities
* Ad hoc analysis to support business and engineering teams
* Communicate with org leaders and business/engineering teams for models, experiments and data analyses