Senior Sustainability Scientist — Decarbonization

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

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to join the growing Sustainability team and drive the science behind value chain decarbonization. You will establish scientific methodologies and benchmarks, and lead assessments across Amazon’s businesses while ensuring high-quality environmental interventions with scientific rigor.

You will collaborate with procurement, sustainability operations, and business units to translate methodologies into actionable requirements, develop quality frameworks,

Qualifications

• 5+ years investigating feasibility of applying scientific principles to business problems and products.
• PhD, or Master’s degree and 5+ years of quantitative field research experience.
• 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.)

Responsibilities

• Develop quality assessment frameworks for complex environmental interventions, baseline-setting approaches, and measurement methodologies
• Build quantitative benchmark and statistical models that enable scalable evaluation across heterogeneous data sources
• Create attribution methodologies for supply chain interventions across Amazon's diverse footprint
• Develop social and environmental safeguard criteria that integrate community impact assessments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including procurement, sustainability operations, and business units to translate scientific methodologies into operational requirements
• Work under the direction of senior business leaders while acting as lead Subject Matter Expert for value chain decarbonization science, including designing and leading research, data collection, modeling, documentation, interpretation, and validation

Skills

Qualitative methods communication

Quantitative methods

Education

PhD or Master’s degree

Tools

R

Python

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to join the growing Sustainability team and drive the science behind value chain decarbonization. You will establish scientific methodologies and benchmarks, and lead assessments across Amazon’s businesses while ensuring high-quality environmental interventions with scientific rigor.

You will collaborate with procurement, sustainability operations, and business units to translate methodologies into actionable requirements, develop quality frameworks,