Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon

Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports-all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. U.S. Prime members can also subscribe to 100+ channels including Max, discovery+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Prime Video is just one of the savings, convenience, and entertainment benefits included in a Prime membership. More than 200 million Prime members in 25 countries around the world enjoy access to Amazon's enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast delivery.
Prime Video's Global Consumer Engagement team builds science and technology solutions that drive customer activation and engagement across all devices that support the Prime Video experience globally. We obsess over finding effective, programmatic and scalable ways to reach customers via a broad portfolio of both in-app and out-of-app experiences.
We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to help us reinvent the next level of most advanced and innovative solutions. In this role, you will analyze video, audio and textual signal streams for content generation and personalization. You will be asked to solve problems across different cultures and languages, and work with internal and external stakeholders, cross-functional partners, and end-users around the world at all levels. As a member of our team, you will apply your deep knowledge of computer vision, natural language understanding, audio analysis and machine learning to concrete problems that have broad cross-organizational, global, and technology impact. We are looking for someone who will consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to state-of-the-art solutions.
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Applied Scientist on the team, you will help set the science vision as well as work with multiple teams of scientists and engineers to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables. You will help improve science (Computer Vision technologies and Deep Learning) and Gen AI adoption in several different areas within our Prime Video org. You will build ground-breaking research and provide thought guidance to scientists and engineers to invent and implement various AI solutions. You will develop solutions that can also be leveraged by Prime Video partner teams (Localization, Personalization, Discovery & Search, Marketing & Advertising, IMDB etc.) and Content Providers including major studios. You will represent Prime Video at internal and external science conferences, and work closely with peers in Retail, Music and AWS to advance state of the art research and science application for Machine Learning and AI.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience building complex, real-time AI solusions involving Computer Vision, NLP, Personalization and Deep Learning including modeling, data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
- Expert on Gen AI for foundational models and diffusion based models.
- Demonstrated track record of peer-reviewed scientific publications that advance state-of-the art applied science.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Media & Streaming Industry (Audio and Video) experience
- The ability to Think Big, Dive Deep and Learn & Be Curious in order to provide strategic direction to the Prime Video Content and Studio Technology teams.
- The leadership and interpersonal skills necessary to excel in influence-based roles, with or without direct authority, while working closely with internal and external partners in leading science efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
- A demonstrated track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with evolving requirements. Ability to take a project from requirements gathering and design to actual product launch.
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication with an ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audience.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.