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Applied Scientist, Fulfilled-by-Amazon (FBA)

Amazon· Research Science
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Bellevue, WA$142.8k - $193.2kfull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

FBA Science seeks an Applied Scientist to invent and build optimization models and algorithms that improve how Amazon plans and places seller inventory across its worldwide fulfillment network.

Responsibilities

  • Own the development of the replenishment, placement, and transportation-planning algorithms that decide how a seller's inventory flows across Amazon's fulfillment network.
  • Design and implement large-scale optimization models and algorithms for complex inventory-planning problems, and the prediction and estimation layer they depend on.
  • Partner closely with Product Managers and engineers to define high-impact problems, translate ambiguous business challenges into well-scoped science initiatives, and deliver actionable, science-driven solutions.
  • Build and deploy science solutions into production pipelines, ensuring that models operate reliably at scale across a network serving hundreds of thousands of sellers.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of building models for business application experience
  • Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Demonstrated ability to build complex optimization models from scratch and take them to production.
  • PhD in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

Skills

Required:Optimization modelingProduction-grade deploymentProgramming

Benefits

  • health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans)
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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