Sustainability Scientist, Devices - Sunnyvale, United States - Amazon Services LLC

Amazon Services LLC

Verified Company

Sunnyvale, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience

Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets
Knowledge of R, MATLAB, Python or similar scripting language
Basic knowledge of product LCA and sustainable product design
Experience working with stakeholders across both technical and business functions

Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

The Role:

At Amazon, we are committed to and invested in sustainability because it's a win all around - it's good for business, the planet, our customers, and our communities.

Amazon has co-founded and signed The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach net zero carbon by 2040.

This science-based goal is a multi-year carbon emissions reduction goal that is aligned with getting to carbon neutrality 10 years faster than the latest scientific guidance.

In alignment with this bold corporate goal, the Amazon Devices & Services organization is hiring a Sustainability Scientist to join our growing Devices Sustainability team.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will be part of the central Amazon Devices & Services Sustainability team

Your responsibilities will include:

Working with business teams to build carbon measurement and reduction plans
Expanding existing assessment models to serve new use cases
Working closely with research scientists and SDEs on building scalable assessment models
Communicating professionally to senior business leaders

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

PhD in engineering discipline or other sustainabilityrelated fields
5+ years conducting sustainability research and/or driving sustainability improvements
2+ years of experience with highvolume consumer electronics products or other electronic products.
Experience with commercial LCA software and data
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience with AWS services (S3, Redshift) is a plus
Experience working with messy datasets and deriving inferences from them
Strong drive to learn new topics and skills, to develop innovative insights
Published a peerreviewed LCA, Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), product carbon footprint (PCF), or similar.