Amazon Intern – Summer Research Science Intern In North Reading

Job Description:

The Operations Research team at Amazon works passionately to apply cutting-edge advances in technology to solve real-world problems. As an intern, you will be challenged to apply optimization theory into practice through experimentation and invention, develop new algorithms using mathematical programming techniques (such as column generation and Benders decomposition) for complex problems, implement prototypes and work with massive datasets. Amazon has a culture of data-driven decision-making, and the expectation is that analytics are timely, accurate, innovative and actionable.

Job Responsibilities:

• Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results.
• Enrolled in a Master’s degree or equivalent in operations research or technologies, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering, or related topics.
• Experience in understanding and ability to implement algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code.
• Experience with Java, C++, or other programming language, as well as with R, MATLAB, Python, or similar scripting language.

Job Requirements/Qualifications:

• Experience in developing and implementing algorithms, tailored to particular business needs and tested on large data sets
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying optimization
• Enrolled in a Ph.D. degree or equivalent in operations research or technologies, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering, or related topics.
• Publication(s) at peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Advanced ability to extract complex data sets, cleaning and analysis