Hundreds of jobs across the Bay Area and California will be impacted by Amazon’s mass layoffs announced this week, part of a sweeping corporate restructuring tied to the company’s accelerating push into artificial intelligence.
The Seattle-based giant plans to cut about 14,000 corporate positions worldwide by early 2026. According to a new filing with state regulators, it includes more than 1,400 jobs in California.
Of those, more than 600 will come from Amazon’s Bay Area offices in Sunnyvale, Palo Alto and Santa Clara, according to filings with the state’s Employment Development Department obtained by San Francisco Business Times.
Hundreds of jobs across the Bay Area and California will be impacted by Amazon’s mass layoffs announced this week. CEO Andy Jassy said the company expects advances in generative AI to streamline operations. (Amazon)
In Sunnyvale, 391 employees will be let go at sites on Enterprise Way, Eleventh Avenue and Discovery Way. Another 176 will be cut from Palo Alto offices on Lytton Avenue, Cowper Street and University Avenue, while 76 will lose their jobs in Santa Clara at locations including Augustine Drive and Great America Parkway.
Most of the affected workers are software development engineers.
The layoffs are slated to take effect Jan. 26, and come as Amazon reallocates resources to its growing AI and robotics divisions.
“We’re convinced that we need to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and business,” Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president for people experience and technology, wrote in a memo to staff this week.
Amazon, which employs about 350,000 corporate workers globally and roughly 7,500 in the Bay Area, said the restructuring will allow it to “reduce bureaucracy” and “invest in our biggest bets.”
CEO Andy Jassy has previously said the company expects advances in generative AI to streamline operations and reshape how it deploys talent.
The company’s announcement adds to a cascade of recent tech job cuts. Applied Materials, headquartered in Santa Clara, filed notice that 363 employees will be laid off across its Bay Area offices by late December.
Meta Platforms also disclosed 318 job losses at its Menlo Park headquarters, largely within its AI and engineering teams.
The latest cuts follow earlier reductions of 27,000 positions in 2023, when Amazon trimmed staff across its retail, human resources and cloud divisions.
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