When you order items on Amazon, there are practically thousands of ways we can fulfill that order. Which Fulfillment Center do we ship from, what carriers do we use, what boxes do we combine items in — now scale that question to billions of items shipped annually worldwide. At Amazon's Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT), we are tasked with fulfilling every customer order in the most intelligent way possible while making sure customers get their orders on time.

Within SCOT, the Fulfillment Optimization organization owns the artificial intelligence, optimization, and simulation systems that decide how Amazon's outbound network is planned and operated. Our team is a new horizontal team responsible for the data foundations that power every Fulfillment Optimization product — from long-range planning to day-of execution. Our customers are the Applied Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Data Scientists, and Software Development Engineers building those products, a...