Senior Research Scientist, Sustainability, WW Sustainability

Amazon • Seattle, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Join Amazon's worldwide sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements that support Amazon's long-term worldwide sustainability strategy. This role is for a Senior Research Scientist to join the growing Sustainability team, focusing on driving the science behind value chain decarbonization. The scientist will establish Amazon's scientific methodologies for sector- and cross-sectoral decarbonization mechanisms, and set benchmarks for automated validation and risk assessment. Responsibilities include independently leading assessments of environmental issues across Amazon businesses, evaluating sustainability impacts across the value chain, and developing quality frameworks and methodologies to scale procurement of high-quality environmental interventions while maintaining scientific rigor and environmental integrity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products experience
• 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.)

Nice To Haves

• 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 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

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree