About this role
Amazon's Modeling and Optimization (MOP) team seeks motivated individual with strong analytical and algorithmic skills to optimize the global logistics network and its operations. Key job responsibilities - Enhance global logistics network efficiency through data-driven simulation and optimization - Reduce variable costs by improving network design, inventory placement, process and operational planning, and resource allocation - Optimize capital investment through strategic fixed asset deployment planning - Develop metrics to quantify business impact of implemented solutions A day in the life - Lead development of production-ready algorithms and scientific tools for under-the-roof (UTR) and network process analysis and optimization - Drive planning and execution decisions on operation timing and resource allocation to improve capacity, cost, and speed. - Manage customer interactions, promote science-based processes, and incorporate customer needs into tool improvements. - Partner with team members and customers to exercise judgment on appropriate analysis methods for various business requests. - Interact with and influence adjacent systems and tools, including those for long-term operating policies and daily capacity planning. - Blend scientific expertise with business acumen to deliver impactful solutions across the organization.