Senior Research Scientist, Sustainability & Decarbonization

Amazon; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to lead science for value chain decarbonization within the Sustainability team. You will establish methodologies and benchmarks to support environmental and social advancements across Amazon’s businesses.

You will develop quality frameworks, build scalable models, and collaborate with procurement, sustainability operations, and business units to translate research into actionable requirements, acting as a lead SME on decarbonization science.

Qualifications

• 5+ years investigating feasibility of applying scientific principles to business problems.
• PhD or Master’s with 5+ years of quantitative field research experience.
• Knowledge of R or Python.
• Experience communicating qualitative methods to non-qualitative researchers.
• Knowledge of quantitative approaches (e.g., t-tests, regressions, ANOVAs).

Responsibilities

• Develop quality assessment frameworks for complex environmental interventions.
• Build quantitative benchmark and statistical models for scalable evaluation.
• Create attribution methodologies for supply chain interventions.
• Develop social and environmental safeguard criteria.
• Collaborate with procurement, sustainability ops, and business units to translate methodologies into requirements.
• Lead research, data collection, modeling, documentation, interpretation and validation as SME.

Skills

5+ years of research experience

R

Python

Quantitative analysis

Communication of research findings

Education

PhD or Master's + 5+ years research

Tools

R

Python

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to lead science for value chain decarbonization within the Sustainability team. You will establish methodologies and benchmarks to support environmental and social advancements across Amazon’s businesses.

You will develop quality frameworks, build scalable models, and collaborate with procurement, sustainability operations, and business units to translate research into actionable requirements, acting as a lead SME on decarbonization science.