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Senior Applied Scientist , EC2 Optimization Science

Amazon - Seattle, Washington, USA

Posted Apr 14, 2026

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Senior Applied Scientist , EC2 Optimization Science Seattle, Washington, USA AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Org is looking for an experienced applied optimization expert. This leader will join the Optimization Science Team to design, implement, and scale decision-making algorithms to manage EC2's virtual and physical capacity systems. EC2 Capacity owns EC2's top-level customer satisfaction metric capacity availability and the forecasting & decision-making systems which drive significant capex investments in server ordering for AWS data centers. Optimization Science is a core team involved in the end-to-end design and implementation of various decision-making systems, which manage the trade-off between capex and capacity availability while matching demand and supply at different planning horizons. The stakeholders and partners include engineering and product management orgs within EC2 as well as the AWS Infrastructure Supply Chain (AIS) organization. We are seeking an expert with a strong background in mathematical optimization with excellent modeling skills, and expertise in the numerical solution of continuous and discrete problems using exact and and heuristic methods applied to very large-scale problems. Experience with decision-making under uncertainty; e.g., robust or stochastic optimization is an advantage. Candidates at the OR/ML interface, and particularly those who have experience applying ML / Gen AI methods to enhance and improve optimization algorithms or optimization-based decision-making systems, are encouraged to apply. The candidate will apply their knowledge to match the end-customer demand for virtual machines to physical resource supply at horizons ranging from five minutes to 13 years. The variety of problems requires principled mathematical decomposition

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