Sr Applied Scientist, Amazon Supply Chain

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. 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. Our mission is to accelerate our customers' businesses through intuitive, differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring supply chain challenges. We blend strategic vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world operational experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions that make the 'buy versus build' decision a no-brainer for our customers. 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. You will work at the intersection of research and real-world product impact—translating scientific breakthroughs into production systems that serve millions of customers. We operate like a startup within AWS, offering you the opportunity to tackle unprecedented challenges while working with the latest technologies in deep learning, large language models, and optimization. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of applied science, thrive in ambiguous problem spaces, and want to shape the future of supply chain intelligence while having the backing of AWS's extensive resources, we want to hear from you. Key job 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.

The AWS Applied AI Solutions team builds enterprise applications that leverage Amazon's operational expertise to solve real-world supply chain challenges for millions of companies. We operate like a startup within AWS—moving fast, shipping iteratively using state-of-the-art AI technologies. We invest in your growth through mentorship from senior scientists, conference publication support, and internal science reading groups. Amazon values diverse experiences—even if you don't