Senior Scientist, Value-Chain Decarbonization

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in New York is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to drive the science behind value chain decarbonization and establish benchmarks for automated validation and risk assessment.

You will independently lead assessments of environmental issues across Amazon businesses and develop quality frameworks enabling scalable procurement of environmental interventions while maintaining scientific rigor.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develop quality assessment frameworks for complex environmental interventions, baseline-setting approaches, and measurement methodologies.
• Build quantitative benchmark and statistical models for scalable evaluation across diverse data sources.
• Create attribution methodologies for supply chain interventions.
• Develop social and environmental safeguard criteria integrating community impact assessments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate methodologies into operational requirements.
• Lead research, data collection, modeling, documentation, interpretation, and validation as SME.

Skills

R

Python

Quantitative analysis

Research communication

Education

PhD in a related field

Master's + 5+ years field research

Tools

R

Python

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in New York is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to drive the science behind value chain decarbonization and establish benchmarks for automated validation and risk assessment.

You will independently lead assessments of environmental issues across Amazon businesses and develop quality frameworks enabling scalable procurement of environmental interventions while maintaining scientific rigor.