Overview
- Amazon filed California notices that list 148 permanent job eliminations in the Bay Area, with the cuts taking effect on Oct. 20.
- The San Francisco Bush Street office will lose mostly technical staff while the Sunnyvale roster includes software engineers, applied scientists, data scientists, QA engineers and technical program managers.
- Synopsys filed a separate notice to cut 128 positions at its Sunnyvale campus in December as part of a restructuring tied to its acquisition of Ansys and possible site changes.
- The Bay Area reductions add to broader Amazon downsizing that has eliminated roughly 30,000 corporate roles since October 2025 as the company seeks to flatten management layers.
- Workers will face job loss and local hiring pressure while regulators and observers monitor whether large reported capital outlays for data centers and AI will affect future staffing and site decisions.