Part-time Applied Scientist, Labs, SCOT Forecasting and Labs

About the role

The Forecasting and Labs Science team sits at the heart of Amazon's supply chain, building the science that determines what products are available, when, and at what cost for hundreds of millions of customers around the world. Our mission spans two deeply connected frontiers: pushing the boundaries of large-scale time series forecasting through foundation models that generalize across an enormous and diverse catalog of products, and building the experimentation and causal inference methodology that rigorously evaluates whether supply chain policy changes should ship to production. We are a team of scientists who care deeply about both research rigor and real-world outcomes. We don't just publish: we ship. And we don't just ship: we measure, iterate, and raise the bar. On the forecasting side, we build foundation models at a scale unmatched in industry, running experiments across millions of products and exploring novel data generation techniques that open new frontiers in model generalization. On the experimentation side, we design and run randomized controlled trials across hundreds of fulfillment nodes, advance causal inference in settings where interference is unavoidable, and build supply chain emulation systems that can evaluate policy changes in hours rather than months. Our work spans the full lifecycle: from foundational research and large-scale experimentation to production deployment and downstream impact measurement across supply chain, inventory, and financial planning.