Senior Scientist, Value-Chain Decarbonization & Impact

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to advance science for value chain decarbonization and establish benchmarks and validation methods. You will independently lead assessments across Amazon businesses, develop quality frameworks, and scale environmental interventions while maintaining rigorous science.

The role requires leadership in research design, data collection, modeling, and collaboration with procurement and sustainability teams to translate methodologies into operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products
• Knowledge of R or Python
• Experience communicating qualitative research methods and findings to non-qualitative researchers
• Knowledge of quantitative approaches (e.g., t-tests, regressions, ANOVAs, etc.)
• Experience with carbon markets, including additionality concepts, baseline-setting, monitoring/reporting/verification (MRV), registry systems, or environmental attribute certificates
• Domain expertise in agricultural emissions, soil carbon dynamics, biogeochemistry, or land use change assessment
• Experience with risk assessment and uncertainty quantification in environmental systems
• Knowledge of environmental policy and regulatory frameworks (AIM, GHG Protocol, ISO standards)
• Extensive experience using life cycle assessment (LCA) databases and techno-economic analysis (TEA)

Responsibilities

• Develop quality assessment frameworks for environmental interventions
• Build quantitative benchmark and statistical models
• Create attribution methodologies for supply chain interventions
• Develop social and environmental safeguard criteria
• Collaborate with procurement, sustainability operations, and business units
• Lead research activities including data collection, modeling, documentation, interpretation, and validation

Skills

Scientific principles application

R

Python

Qualitative research communication

Quantitative methods

Carbon markets & MRV

Environmental policy knowledge

LCA/TEA databases

Education

PhD or Master's + 5+ years quantitative field research

Tools

R

Python

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to advance science for value chain decarbonization and establish benchmarks and validation methods. You will independently lead assessments across Amazon businesses, develop quality frameworks, and scale environmental interventions while maintaining rigorous science.

The role requires leadership in research design, data collection, modeling, and collaboration with procurement and sustainability teams to translate methodologies into operations.