Nikol Szymul has a reception at Amazon offices discreetly tucked away in a building called Fiona in downtown Seattle, Washington on May 11, 2017.
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Amazon plans to create 3,000 jobs and open a new office in Boston, the company announced Tuesday.
The new hires – who are expected to focus on software development, artificial intelligence, machine learning, management, HR and finance – will support the Amazon Web Services, robotics, Alexa and emerging Amazon Pharmacy teams. Amazon expects to add the jobs in the coming years.
Amazon said it rented a 17-story office tower in Boston’s Seaport district to house the new employees. The 630,000-square-foot office, expected to be completed by 2024, includes workspace, innovation labs and mixed-use communal areas for employees, as well as two theaters and other spaces for the public.
The expansion builds on Amazon’s growing presence in Boston. In 2018, Amazon said it would create 2,000 jobs in Boston and announced it would rent a separate 17-story mixed-use building in the Seaport district. Construction of the tower is expected to be completed this year.
Amazon hired at unprecedented levels during the pandemic, buoyed by a surge in demand for e-commerce as customers stuck at home turn to online retailers for both essential and non-essential goods.
The company added more than 400,000 employees in 2020, increasing the global workforce to more than 1 million. Last year, Amazon announced that it will add thousands of jobs to tech hubs in major cities, including New York, Detroit and San Diego.