About the job
We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join our team that is building revolutionary enterprise applications leveraging machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI to help millions of companies worldwide manage their day-to-day supply chain operations. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will design and develop state-of-the-art machine learning models and algorithms that power intelligent supply chain applications at global scale.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and deploy novel machine learning models for demand forecasting, inventory optimization, anomaly detection, and supply chain decision-making.
Lead the development of GenAI and Agentic AI solutions that automate complex supply chain workflows and deliver intelligent, adaptive recommendations to customers.
Formulate real-world business problems as machine learning problems; define data requirements, model architectures, evaluation metrics, and experimentation frameworks.
Drive end-to-end applied science projects from ideation through experimentation, offline evaluation, A/B testing, and production deployment at scale.
Publish research findings in top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, AAAI) and file patents to advance Amazon's intellectual property.
Mentor and develop junior scientists; raise the technical bar for the science team through code reviews, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Collaborate closely with engineering, product management, and business stakeholders to translate scientific capabilities into customer-facing product features.
Influence the technical strategy and scientific roadmap for the organization; identify new areas of investment and emerging opportunities in AI/ML.
Establish and promote best practices for experimentation, model validation, and responsible AI development across the team.
Qualifications
Minimum
PhD or equivalent research experience
6+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl
Experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations, or experience in software development
Have peer-reviewed scientific contributions in premier journals and conferences
Preferred
Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing, or experience in developing and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU or other AI acceleration hardware
Knowledge of supply chain management concepts - forecasting, planning, sourcing, optimization and logistics or equivalent
5+ years of building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale experience
Experience in supply chain
Experience in practical work applying ML to solve complex problems for large scale applications