Sr. Operations Research Scientist - Last Mile Transportation - (Olympia, WA)

Job details Take hundreds of millions of shipments, a gigantic fulfillment network, reliable premium delivery service and optimizing decisions on transportation cost (involving billions of dollars in transportation spend). Combine this with the opportunity to be a key research leader and individual contributor building innovative transportation capabilities for the world?s most customer centric company and what do you get? The best optimization R& D role. Period. The context: Amazon ships millions of unique shipments through its Fulfillment Network. Product is procured from tens of thousands of vendors/3rd party sellers into the multiple fulfillment centers in the Amazon network. Merchandize from these vendors needs to be transported from vendor locations to these fulfillment centers and between fulfillment centers as we balance our inventory across our network.