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— San Francisco office building
Amazonian parents can use the building's mother's rooms, each equipped with a hospital grade pump, pump wipes, storage bags, and nursing pads. There is also a prep room that offers lockers/cubbies, a microwave, refrigerator, and sink.
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— San Francisco office building
The interfaith prayer room located on the eighth floor is open to individuals of all faiths and religious denominations. Dog owners appreciate the convenience and flexibility of the office's dog-friendly policy.
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— Palo Alto office building
Building amenities include bicycle parking as well as locker rooms/showers on the ground floor.
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— Palo Alto office building
Each mother's room is equipped with a recliner, sink, refrigerator, and storage cabinets. Dog owners appreciate the building's dog-friendly policy.
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— East Palo Alto office building
Employees can grab a bite at Milliways Cafe on the third floor, which serves a variety of hot and cold lunch options, or stop by Amped Cloud Coffee Bar in the first floor atrium for freshly brewed coffee and espresso drinks, along with an assortment of rotating pastries, grab-and-go sandwiches, yogurt parfaits, packaged snacks, and bottled beverages.
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— East Palo Alto office building
Parents have access to baby changing stations located in the gender-neutral restroom on each floor, as well as mother's rooms equipped with a hospital grade pump, pump wipes, storage bags, and nursing pads. Amazonians of all faiths and religious denominations are invited to use the interfaith prayer room located on the fourth floor.
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— Cupertino office building
Amazonians enjoy 24/7 access to the building's onsite fitness center. Dining and retail options abound throughout the surrounding Cupertino neighborhood.
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— Cupertino office building
Each mother's room is equipped with a hospital grade pump, pump wipes, storage bags, and nursing pads.
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— Santa Clara office building
There is a fitness center onsite, available to Amazonians Monday-Friday, between 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The facility is equipped with free weights, treadmills, ellipticals, weight machines, cardio equipment, etc. Amazonians of all faiths and religious denominations are invited to use the interfaith prayer rooms located on the second and fifth floors.
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— Santa Clara office building
Throughout the building, each mother's room is equipped with a hospital grade pump, pump wipes, storage bags, and nursing pads. Additionally, outside of each mother's room, there is a prep room that offers lockers/cubbies, a microwave, refrigerator, and sink. A quiet room is also available to employees who would like to have a peaceful moment to themselves, for a prayer or simply to unwind.
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— Sunnyvale office building
Employees enjoy access to a range of amenities, including an onsite fitness center, which features a junior Olympic pool, outdoor Jacuzzi, indoor basketball and volleyball courts, as well as state-of-the-art cardiovascular and strength training equipment on the fitness floor; an interfaith prayer room that welcomes individuals of all faiths and religious denominations; and a cafe and coffee bar.
Research areas
Research in the Bay Area spans a variety of disciplines, including automated reasoning, conversational AI, data science, data privacy, hardware design, machine learning, personalization and recommender systems, natural language generation, natural language understanding, networking, speech recognition, machine translation, graph neural networks, deep learning, time series forecasting, and computer vision, among others.
Working in San Francisco
Amazon provides scientists room to take risks and fail; a community for collaboration and support for continued learning; and the opportunity to have an impact at global scale. Scientists are encouraged to engage with the research community in many forms, from attending conferences and writing research papers, to contributing to open-source code, and public datasets.
The San Francisco Bay area is home to many of the world's leading technology companies which reside in the Silicon Valley in the South Bay Area. In addition to beautiful weather, opportunities for outdoor adventures, and any number of cultural activities, Napa Valley wine tasting, Yosemite National Park, and Santa Cruz beaches are just a drive away.
Palo Alto lies at the heart of Silicon Valley innovation, in close proximity to the prestigious Stanford University and Sand Hill Road. The area features the Stanford Shopping Center, the historic Stanford Theatre downtown, the Baylands Nature Preserve, and the Stanford Dish. Palo Alto is a beautiful gateway to the rest of the Bay Area – a train ride away from San Francisco, with the beaches of Half Moon Bay close by.
In the center of Silicon Valley, Cupertino lies on the cutting edge of tech innovation, along with San Jose and Sunnyvale. Expansive hiking areas like Rancho San Antonio and Fremont Older Open Space are ready for exploration in Cupertino, as well as beautiful wineries.
Collaborations
Our San Francisco Bay Area scientists collaborate with universities and other institutions around the globe. To see a summary of some of Amazon’s scientific collaborations, visit our academic collaborations page.
Open listings
Amazon ranked second on the 2024 list of the best large workplaces to grow your career in the US. Visit our careers page to see all open science roles, both in the US and around the world.
