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Applied Scientist, One MHS - Software, Controls, Science

As an Applied Scientist, you will collaborate closely with other scientists and engineers to bring optimization and sequential decision-making research to production. This role combines the scientific application of ML, and specifically opt

Company

Amazon

Location

North Reading, Massachusetts, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Amazon's One MHS organization seeks an Applied Scientist for its Science Software team in North Reading, Massachusetts. The role brings optimization and sequential decision-making research into production for material handling equipment: constraint programming, stochastic and robust optimization, contextual bandits and reinforcement learning applied to scheduling, resource allocation, sorter optimization and congestion control. Work includes building simulation environments for offline training and staged rollout. The posting asks for a PhD in a related field, 2+ years building ML models or algorithms, Python, and optimization mathematics. On-site, full-time.