Amazon goes on tech hiring spree in North America
Amazon is looking for some new tech talent for its two new innovation labs.
Coinciding with the expansion of its Boston Tech Hub, Amazon is creating 2,000 new technology jobs focused on machine learning, speech science, cloud computing, and robotics engineering. In addition to doubling the company’s tech workforce in Boston, these hires — combined with its customer fulfillment facilities — will give Amazon more than 3,500 employees in Massachusetts.
Amazon’s new hires will primarily focus on Alexa, Amazon Web Services and Audible. Machine learning scientists and engineers will also be tasked with enhancing customers’ interactions with Alexa, a move that will help it bolster conversational artificial intelligence and the development of machine learning, according to the company.
Amazon’s Boston Tech Hub is currently located at its Cambridge corporate office. However, Amazon is moving its tech lab into new digs — a 430,000 sq. ft. building that resides in the WS Development’s Seaport project, a 7.6 million sq. ft. development that is designed to transform Boston’s waterfront. The new lab will open its doors in 2021.
“In just a few years, we’ve grown from a handful of software developers and scientists to a team of more than 1,200, inventing new capabilities and products on behalf of millions of customers around the world,” said Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s VP and head scientist of Amazon Alexa.
The online giant is also filling 3,000 jobs focused on e-commerce technology, cloud computing, and machine learning at it expands its Vancouver Tech Hub in Canada. Amazon currently employs more than 1,000 researchers and engineers in the city who primarily create new products and services for the company's international retail business and Amazon Web Services (AWS). New tech hires will be tasked with enhancing the customer experience across mobile shopping, delivery experiences, payment options, and Alexa.
“Vancouver is home to an incredibly talented and diverse workforce, and these thousands of new employees will invent on behalf of our customers worldwide,” said Alexandre Gagnon, VP of Amazon Can-ada and Mexico.
Overall, these new employees will bolster Amazon’s Canadian workforce of 6,000 people.
To accommodate its growing tech team, Amazon plans to relocate its Canadian lab to a 416,000 sq. ft. development center in Vancouver. The facility will open in 2022, according to the company.
Coinciding with the expansion of its Boston Tech Hub, Amazon is creating 2,000 new technology jobs focused on machine learning, speech science, cloud computing, and robotics engineering. In addition to doubling the company’s tech workforce in Boston, these hires — combined with its customer fulfillment facilities — will give Amazon more than 3,500 employees in Massachusetts.
Amazon’s new hires will primarily focus on Alexa, Amazon Web Services and Audible. Machine learning scientists and engineers will also be tasked with enhancing customers’ interactions with Alexa, a move that will help it bolster conversational artificial intelligence and the development of machine learning, according to the company.
Amazon’s Boston Tech Hub is currently located at its Cambridge corporate office. However, Amazon is moving its tech lab into new digs — a 430,000 sq. ft. building that resides in the WS Development’s Seaport project, a 7.6 million sq. ft. development that is designed to transform Boston’s waterfront. The new lab will open its doors in 2021.
“In just a few years, we’ve grown from a handful of software developers and scientists to a team of more than 1,200, inventing new capabilities and products on behalf of millions of customers around the world,” said Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s VP and head scientist of Amazon Alexa.
The online giant is also filling 3,000 jobs focused on e-commerce technology, cloud computing, and machine learning at it expands its Vancouver Tech Hub in Canada. Amazon currently employs more than 1,000 researchers and engineers in the city who primarily create new products and services for the company's international retail business and Amazon Web Services (AWS). New tech hires will be tasked with enhancing the customer experience across mobile shopping, delivery experiences, payment options, and Alexa.
“Vancouver is home to an incredibly talented and diverse workforce, and these thousands of new employees will invent on behalf of our customers worldwide,” said Alexandre Gagnon, VP of Amazon Can-ada and Mexico.
Overall, these new employees will bolster Amazon’s Canadian workforce of 6,000 people.
To accommodate its growing tech team, Amazon plans to relocate its Canadian lab to a 416,000 sq. ft. development center in Vancouver. The facility will open in 2022, according to the company.