Amazon New Product Demand Forecasting | Seattle | Full-Time | On-Site ($130-$250+ depending on experience)
Amazon's New Product Demand Forecasting team is responsible for one of the most challenging problems in supply chain optimization: predicting sales for products that have no sales history. This is a uniquely creative space in Forecasting requiring our machine learning models to capture both the nuances of the global consumer marketplace as well as customer behavior on Amazon. Our team works closely with research scientists to invent new ways to make use of novel data, solve hard engineering problems around scaling and performance in predicting for tens of millions of products, and iterates quickly in order to stay on the cutting edge.
We're looking for an experienced, data-science-leaning software developer that is comfortable with big data and can:
* Design systems that provide a stable base for innovation in a rapidly changing business
* Improve Forecasting algorithms through data-driven analysis and experimentation in our Scala/Spark environment
* Optimize for scalability and performance of both distributed computations and near-metal C++ code
* Communicate their ideas clearly with all members of a diverse team
If this sounds interesting, I'd love to chat or buy you coffee. Email me (Stefan) at smai@ (amazon.com) with your resume and a brief introduction.
(Interview process is 1 phone screen and onsite interview with whiteboard coding and behavioral questions about your experience.)