Amazon Expands in Santa Barbara and Announces Plans to Create 150 Tech Jobs in Central California
February 04 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
New 48,000 square foot tech office is located
downtown and has space for more than 275 employees
With a range of positions already open, the
company is looking to double its local workforce in the coming
years to support local tech teams
Amazon has already created over 45,000 jobs and
invested more than $34.5 billion in California since 2010,
including infrastructure and compensation
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced an expansion of the
company’s workforce in Santa Barbara, California and plans to
create 150 additional tech jobs in the city. With plans to double
its workforce, the company has opened a new 48,000 square foot
office for Alexa tech teams located in downtown Santa Barbara.
Amazon has created more than 45,000 full-time jobs in California
since 2010 and invested over $34.5 billion in the state, including
infrastructure and compensation to our employees.
“We have been able to hire great talent in Santa Barbara and
look forward to doubling our workforce here,” said Kevin Davis,
Site Lead of Amazon’s Santa Barbara office. “Santa Barbara is an
incredibly welcoming city with a high quality of life and
innovative culture – and we’re excited to create more jobs, and
continue to invest locally in the community.”
“We welcome a new Amazon office in downtown Santa Barbara,
adding to the mix of innovative, technology companies in our
region. We encourage their employees to participate in community
events and enjoy the amenities of local restaurants, shopping, and
arts and culture,” said Cathy Murillo, Mayor of Santa Barbara.
The tech teams based in Santa Barbara help Alexa get even
smarter every day, developing new ways to power Alexa’s factual
knowledge in devices such as Amazon Echo and Fire TV. The Santa
Barbara-based teams work with scientists in Amazon’s Development
Center in Cambridge, England in this effort. Amazon currently has
dozens of open roles located in Santa Barbara, including Software
and Data Engineers, Knowledge Engineers, Data Scientists, Machine
Learning Associates, Product Managers, and more.
The new Amazon office includes energy efficient appliances and
sensors to reduce energy and water consumption, enhanced bike
storage and lockers to encourage alternate modes of commuting, and
open spaces to enhance collaboration and innovation between
teams.
Investing and creating jobs in
California – and giving back in the Golden State
Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 45,000 full-time jobs
and invested over $34.5 billion in California, from customer
fulfillment and cloud infrastructure to research facilities and
compensation to our employees. The company estimates that these
direct investments in the state contributed an additional $25.8
billion to California’s economy and generated an additional 100,000
indirect jobs on top of the company’s direct hires. There are also
more than 338,000 small and medium-sized businesses, developers and
authors growing their businesses with Amazon products and services
in California.
As a part of Amazon’s ongoing commitment to the communities
where employees live and work, the Amazon Future Engineer program —
a childhood-to-career program to inspire, educate, and propel
children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented
communities to try computer science — serves millions of students
each year across the country. In California specifically, Amazon
Future Engineer is funding computer science classes in more than
170 California high schools, awarded 14 students from California
the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship award, which includes
$10,000 per year for the student to study computer science in
college and a guaranteed, paid internship offer at Amazon, and more
than 15 schools in California are part of the Amazon Future
Engineer robotics grant program. Our employees in Santa Barbara
have already dedicated hundreds of volunteer hours to support local
charities, from local homeless shelter to food drives, such as
Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, Alpha Resource Center, Hillside
House, Organic Soup Kitchen, Toys for tots, Transition House and
Domestic Violence Solutions.
Amazon has been recognized on LinkedIn’s Top Companies list for
the past four years, ranked #2 in the Fortune 2017 and 2018 World’s
Most Admired Companies, and ranked #5 in Fast Company's World’s
Most Innovative Companies. The company also receives a perfect
score from the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index.
Amazon offers a wide range of programs to equip employees with the
skills for new, in-demand jobs — from paid cloud computing
apprenticeships, to Amazon Technical Academy to its innovative
Career Choice initiative, which prepays 95 percent of the cost of
tuition to pursue continuing education courses in in-demand fields,
regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at
Amazon. All these program are part of Upskilling 2025, a $700
million commitment by Amazon looking to support all employees in
gaining critical skills to move into higher skill, better paying,
technical or non-technical roles.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit
www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.
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