Sustainability Research Scientist: Decarbonization & Data Modeling

Amazon Science; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Science is seeking a Research Scientist to drive value chain decarbonization and establish scientific methodologies for cross-sector benchmarks. You will independently lead assessments of environmental issues across Amazon's businesses and develop rigorous frameworks for scalable procurement of environmental interventions.

You will partner with procurement, sustainability operations, and business units to translate methodologies into real-world requirements and to validate models and data

Qualifications

• PhD or Master's with 4+ years of quantitative field research experience.
• Experience applying scientific principles to business problems and products.
• Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets.

Responsibilities

• Develop quality assessment frameworks for complex environmental interventions and measurement methodologies.
• Build quantitative benchmarks and statistical models for scalable evaluation across data sources.
• Create attribution methodologies for supply chain interventions across the firm's footprint.
• Develop social and environmental safeguard criteria integrating community impact assessments.
• Collaborate with procurement, sustainability operations, and business units to translate science into requirements.
• Lead research, data collection, modeling, documentation, interpretation, and validation under senior leaders.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Research design

Statistical modeling

Agile development

Web-based dashboards

Education

PhD, or Master's degree

Tools

R

MATLAB

Python

Web dashboards frameworks

Job description

Amazon Science is seeking a Research Scientist to drive value chain decarbonization and establish scientific methodologies for cross-sector benchmarks. You will independently lead assessments of environmental issues across Amazon's businesses and develop rigorous frameworks for scalable procurement of environmental interventions.

You will partner with procurement, sustainability operations, and business units to translate methodologies into real-world requirements and to validate models and data