Applied Scientist, Prime Video

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

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 subscriptions such as Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, 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 team member, 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!

As a highly experienced and seasoned science leader, you will apply state of the
art natural language processing and computer vision research to video centric
digital media, while also responsible for creating and maintaining the best
environment for applied science in order to recruit, retain and develop top
talent. You will lead the research direction for a team of deeply talented
applied scientists, creating the roadmaps for forward-looking research and
communicate them effectively to senior leadership. You will also hire and
develop applied scientists - growing the team to meet the evolving needs of our
customers.

This team's mission is to deeply understand all content and empower all
customers with relevant language options, innovative accessibility assists, and
rich title-information across all their content-experiences on Prime Video. We
create and publish content on-time that's meaningful, accurate, and accessible
to every customer globally. We delight our customers by pushing the boundaries of content understanding and enrichment. Through inclusion and innovation, we do
the most fulfilling work of our career.

Requirements

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience developing and implementing deep learning algorithms, particularly with respect to computer vision algorithms

Nice To Haves

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development
• Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Responsibilities

• apply state of the art natural language processing and computer vision research to video centric digital media
• responsible for creating and maintaining the best environment for applied science in order to recruit, retain and develop top talent
• lead the research direction for a team of deeply talented applied scientists, creating the roadmaps for forward-looking research and communicate them effectively to senior leadership
• hire and develop applied scientists - growing the team to meet the evolving needs of our customers

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree