DESCRIPTION

The Amazon Capacity and Topology team determines how many, what kind, and where to place new buildings for Amazon's supply chain worldwide. These facilities range from million-square-foot fulfillment centers with thousands of robots down to inner-city Prime Now facilities serving orders to be fulfilled within an hour. Each year we spend billions on these facilities and expect high-impact results from the network built upon them. That network is expanding faster than ever. This team owns the systems that are critical for managing capacity in Amazon's network for all retail customers on Amazon.com. If you are interested in diving into a multi-discipline, high impact space, this team is for you.

Key job responsibilities
Our systems are built entirely in-house, and are on the cutting edge in automated large scale supply chain planning and optimization systems. Our org fosters new game-changing ideas that we are continuously improving, resulting in sophisticated, intelligent and self-learning models. Capacity and IPE Engineering is unique in that we're simultaneously developing the science of supply chain planning and solving some of the toughest computational challenges at Amazon. Unlike many companies who buy existing off-the-shelf planning systems, Cube Forecasting is responsible for studying, designing, and building systems to suit Amazon's needs.


A day in the life
This position is for a senior software engineer that creates and develops innovative solutions for the most challenging use cases confronting capacity planning today.

About the team
This team owns the systems which are critical for managing capacity in Amazon’s network for retail customers to purchase on Amazon.com. These systems cover a broad range of solutions which includes front-ends, workflows, advanced mathematical models, data platform built using latest technology frameworks and AWS.