Amazon LEO is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon LEO will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
The Amazon LEO Global Business Operations (GBO) team drives data-driven decision-making across sales, marketing, operations, product, engineering, finance, and legal functions. We build scalable business intelligence solutions and data infrastructure to solve complex, ambiguous problems with LEO-wide impact. We are looking for a talented Research Scientist to contribute to LEO's long-term vision and strategy for capacity simulations and inventory optimization. This effort will be instrumental in helping LEO execute on its business plans globally.
As one of our valued team members, you will be obsessed with matching our standards for operational excellence with a relentless focus on delivering results.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:

Collaborate with product, business development, sales, marketing, operations, finance, and various technical teams (engineering, science, R&D, simulations, etc.) to support the implementation of capacity simulations and inventory optimization solutions.
Develop and prototype scalable solutions to optimization problems for operating and planning satellite resources.
Support technical roadmap definition efforts by building models to predict future inventory availability and key operational and financial metrics across the network.
Design experiments and simulations to evaluate optimization improvements and understand how they interact with each other.
Analyze large amounts of satellite and business data to identify simulation and optimization opportunities.
Communicate insights and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences to support decision-making across LEO.
Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Basic Qualifications

- PhD in a quantitative field, or MS degree and 1+ years of quantitative field research experience
- Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products
- Experience with any programming language such as Python, Java, C++
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred Qualifications

- PhD in operations research, applied mathematics, theoretical computer science, or equivalent
- Experience applying forecasting and data mining techniques

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, BELLEVUE - 125,500.00 - 169,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Bellevue - 125,500.00 - 169,800.00 USD annually