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.
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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.
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…