Amazon announced Tuesday that it plans to add more than 2,000 corporate and tech jobs to its Austin tech hub over the next few years.
Amazon, which is based in Seattle, first came to Austin in 2015. The company’s local workforce has since grown to more than 3,000 people across three offices at The Domain, a mixed-use development featuring retailers, restaurants and apartments on the north side of the city. The company has continued to grow locally and has more than 1,000 roles currently available in Austin.
To accommodate its growing local workforce, Amazon will lease an additional 330,000 square feet of space at a new building at The Domain. The new office space is expected to open to employees in early 2024.
The open jobs will add to the company’s growing teams in operations technology, Amazon Retail, Amazon Business and Amazon Web Services. Some of the new positions include senior data engineers, senior technical program managers, user experience designers and financial analysts.
“Our continued investment in Austin is a testament to the amazing talent and amenities that this city has to offer,” Doug Gray, site lead for Amazon’s Austin Tech Hub, said in a statement.
Amazon also announced Tuesday that it plans to create 550 jobs in Phoenix and 450 jobs in Chicago over the next several years.
The company said in August that it would add another 600 jobs in Dallas. In June, it said it would add 150 jobs in Houston.
Amazon is also making it easier for professionals who left their jobs during the pandemic to return to the workforce through a hiring initiative called Amazon Returnship. The 16-week paid initiative, open to those who have been without a job or underemployed for at least a year, provides “returners” with dedicated support, personalized coaching and the possibility of a full-time job after four months.
The e-commerce tech giant is making it easier for software engineers to join the company with its Best Fit program, which allows engineers to be considered for thousands of jobs across hundreds of teams with a single application.
Amazon is also fostering the next generation of software engineers through Amazon Future Engineer, a global computer science education program designed to inspire and educate millions of students each year to try computer science and coding. The program supports more than 20 schools across Austin, reaching almost 1,300 students with a computer science curriculum, robotics clubs and project-based learning.
