When you order items on Amazon, there are practically thousands of ways we can fulfill that order. Which Fulfillment Center do we ship the items from, what carriers to use, what boxes to combine items in - now scale the same question to billions of items shipped annually worldwide. At Amazon's Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT), we are tasked with optimizing the fulfillment on customer orders so that we fulfill all orders worldwide in the most intelligent manner while ensuring Amazon customers get their orders on time.

The Fulfillment Network Planning team owns and operates simulation systems that help continually optimize the distribution of tens of millions of products across Amazon’s warehouses in the most cost-effective manner, utilizing large scale optimization techniques and distributed computing in trying to reduce overall transportation costs while improving the customer experience. We are focused on saving hundreds of millions of dollars using big data technologies, cutting edge science, machine learning, and scalable distributed software on the cloud that automates and optimizes inventory and shipments to customers under the uncertainty of demand, pricing and supply.

Watch http://bit.ly/amazon-scot to get the big picture.

Key job responsibilities
We seek a passionate, results-oriented and inventive individual to lead a multi-disciplined tech org. High level responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to
· Hire and develop a growing team of Engineers, Scientists and Managers.
· Serve as a key technical resource in the full software development cycle.
· Recommend improvements in development, maintenance and system standards, and contribute to software documentation.
· Work in an agile development environment, where you are working on the most important stuff.

About the team
The Fulfillment Network Planning team owns and operates optimization and simulation systems to guide Amazon's outbound fulfillment network design and capacity planning. The team is currently spread across Austin, TX and Bellevue, WA. The team is multi-disciplined comprising of research science, business intelligence, product management and software development. Come join us as we fundamentally redesign our approach to Amazon first-party fulfillment.