Principal Economist, Fulfillment by Amazon

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service that enables sellers to outsource supply chain and fulfillment to Amazon and use Amazon"s world-class science, technology, and logistics infrastructure to deliver billions of products from manufacturing hubs to customer doorsteps worldwide with fast delivery promise. The FBA organization is looking for a Principal Economist with expertise in economic and econometric modelling and demonstrated strength in market mechanism design to join our cross-domain group of economists, data scientists, applied and research scientists and scholars.

As a lead economist, you will design markets and implement agentic systems that deploy supply chain and fulfillment resources to millions of heterogenous sellers. You will build causal inference models and experiments to evaluate policy impact on seller outcomes, and shape how our products evolve into trustworthy autonomous systems - collaborating with business and software teams to solve key challenges facing the worldwide FBA business. Such challenges include designing mechanisms to align sellers" decisions with customers" needs through better coordinating inventory, inbound, capacity, and fee. Successful operations enable sellers" businesses growth, while ensuring worldwide Amazon customers have access to the largest selection of products through FBA sellers. In doing so, you will shape the economics of Amazon"s global fast delivery programs, including Sub Same Day Delivery and Quick Commerce, across North America, Europe, and emerging markets.

We are looking for a seasoned economist who brings rigorous causal and structural thinking to traditionally operations research problems and who thrives in the ambiguity of defining the roadmap rather than receiving it. The successful candidate will have familiarity with modern GenAI methods for automation and rapid prototyping. Beyond individual contribution, you will set the long-term technical vision across work streams, and influence product managers, engineers, scientists, and senior leaders on high-judgment decisions and trade-off. You will raise the bar for the organization by establishing best practices, driving science culture, and mentoring junior economists and scientists. We value deeply technical people who deliver results incrementally and frequently in a fast-paced, high-energy and fun environment, and who are eager to learn new areas and develop themselves and their colleagues.

Key job responsibilities

• Design markets (e.g., auctions), incentive mechanisms (e.g. pricing), develop economic models and execute large-scale experiments to increase supply chain efficiency, to evaluate seller-facing policies, to induce proper seller actions, and to uncover new opportunities that improve customers and sellers' outcomes.
• Shape the economics of Amazon"s fast delivery programs and FBA sellers' product selection strategy (e.g., Sub Same Day Delivery and Quick Commerce)
• Bridge economics and operations research by building economic frameworks for large-scale supply chain and fulfilment management problems.
• Operate as a thought leader across the organization; collaborate with product managers, scientists, and software developers to incorporate models into production processes and
• Influence senior leaders at VP-level on technical and business direction, and represent the science perspective.
• Identify and propose new science investment areas to business leaders, shaping where the team focuses next.
• Mentor and develop junior economists and scientists, and raise the technical bar for the broader science community.

About the team

Sellers play a vital role in Amazon"s ecosystem, integral to our mission of offering the Earth"s largest selection, lowest prices, and fastest delivery speed. FBA is an optional service that enables third-party sellers to outsource order fulfillment to Amazon, and leverage Amazon"s world-class facilities to provide customers fast delivery promise. With commitment to taking on even more of the supply chain and operational complexities on behalf of our selling partners, Amazon now provides an end-to-end suite of supply chain services. This comprehensive solution empowers sellers to reliably transport products from manufacturing sites to customers worldwide. The FBA team is the core group in charge of warehousing, inventory management, fulfillment and pricing, and a diverse range of recommendation and agentic services for sellers, as well as building the autonomous internal resource management systems. We work to learn seller behavior, understand seller experience, build automated and trustworthy autonomous assistants to sellers, recommend right actions to sellers, design seller policies and incentives, and develop science products and services that empower sellers to grow their businesses. To do so, we build and innovate science solutions that leverage the right tolls across different fields including economics, operation research, machine learning, statistics, and data analytics. Our culture is centered on rapid prototyping, rigorous experimentation, and data-driven decision-making.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bellevue, WA, or Sunnyvale, CA.