Amazon opens Toronto hub, creating 600 new jobs

Amazon opened a brand new shiny function in downtown Toronto to "accommodate the company's continued job creation in Ontario."

A December 18th, 2018 press release said the tech hub is planning to create 600 new tech jobs in fields including software evolution, machine learning, cloud computing, digital advertizing, and artificial intelligence.

The new 113,000 square foot function in Scotia Plaza volition house new employees besides as the current 800 corporate employees that are primarily focused on enquiry and software evolution for customer fulfilment technology, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Alexa, as well as business development for Amazon Advertising and AWS.

"Amazon is excited to create hundreds of new highly-skilled jobs in Toronto," said Tamir Bar-Haim, Amazon's Toronto site lead and head of Amazon Advertising in Canada, in the release. "Toronto has a well-educated and diverse workforce, and there's a real civilisation of innovation here."

The Toronto tech hub will be 1 of Amazon's xviii hubs outside of its headquarters in Seattle. Since 2011, Amazon has invested more than than $three billion CAD into Canada and that includes customer fulfilment and cloud infrastructure, research facilities, and bounty to employees.

This is the first time Amazon has announced expanding its presence in Toronto since the city was dropped out of the running for becoming Amazon'due south next location for its headquarters.

Amazon said HQ2 would be dissever into two locations in Long Island City in New York Metropolis and National Landing in Arlington, Virginia. The company plans on investing $five billion USD (Roughly $6.62 billion CAD) to create 50,000 jobs divided between the 2 locations.

When Toronto was out of the running, Canadian CEOs were relieved, just not surprised.

MobileSyrup was invited to the new function that was opened to the public today. Hither are some pictures: