Dean Foster writes:
Amazon is having a hiring event (Sept 8/9) here in NYC. If you are interested in working on demand forecasting either here in NYC or in Seattle send your resume to [email protected] by September 1st, 2016.
Here’s the longer blurb:
Amazon Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) builds systems that automate decisions in Amazon’s supply chain. These systems are responsible for predicting customer demand; optimization of sourcing, buying and placement of all inventory, and ensuring optimal customer experience from an order fulfillment promise perspective. In other words, our systems automatically decide how much to buy of which items, from which vendors/suppliers, which fulfilment centers to put them in, how to get it there, how to get it to the customer and what to promise customers – all while maximizing customer satisfaction and minimizing cost.
Could be interesting, and it’s always fun to work on real decision problems!
I was just reading your textbook the other day with the goal of using a multilevel model for some of my work at Amazon! Combining that stuff with huge data sets is… non-trivial though.
Hope Amazon paid you (or your charity of choice) at least some fraction of what that ad is worth to them!