Sr. Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Title Lifecycle Presentation

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!

The Prime Video Title Lifecycle Presentation team sits at the intersection of science, experimentation, and customer experience. We leverage data signals and rigorous testing to present the most engaging information about our content to customers at precisely the right moment. Our mission is to ensure every customer interaction with Prime Video content is informed, relevant, and compelling in order to drive discovery and engagement across our vast catalog.

We're seeking a Sr. Applied Scientist who excels at building sophisticated machine learning systems for content presentation and discovery. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in:

• Multi-modal embeddings for rich metadata representation, enabling nuanced understanding of content attributes and customer preferences
• Contextualized ranking systems that adapt to customer intent, viewing context, and real-time signals
• Reinforcement learning frameworks that create continuous improvement loops, allowing our systems to learn and optimize from customer interactions over time
• General modeling techniques with strong fundamentals in machine learning and statistical methods
• Recommender systems experience, with proven ability to build and scale personalization solutions

You'll work with technology to solve complex problems in content discovery, leveraging large-scale data to create experiences that delight millions of Prime Video customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead Cross-Functional Science Initiatives: Drive a diverse portfolio of applied science projects spanning recommender systems, generative AI agent development and evaluation across multiple modalities, and computer vision applications. Demonstrate both breadth of understanding across technical domains and sufficient depth in each area to effectively lead multiple concurrent initiatives to successful outcomes.

• Bridge Science and Engineering for Production-Scale Deployment: Partner with engineering teams to productionize machine learning models at Prime Video scale. Develop production-ready science code that meets engineering standards for performance, reliability, and maintainability, ensuring seamless transition from research to deployment.

• Mentor and Develop Technical Talent: Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior scientists and engineers on applied science methodologies, best practices, and professional development. Foster a culture of scientific rigor and continuous learning within the team.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ 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 with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
• Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually