Applied Scientist, Prime Video

Amazon • Seattle, WA

13h

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!

We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented individuals to help us
push the envelope of content localization. We work on a broad array of research
areas and applications, including but not limited to multimodal machine
translation, speech synthesis, speech analysis, and asset quality assessment.
Candidates should be prepared to help drive innovation in one or more areas of
machine learning, audio processing, and natural language understanding.

The ideal candidate would have experience in audio processing, natural language
understanding and machine learning. Familiarity with machine translation,
foundational models, and speech synthesis will be a plus. As an Applied
Scientist, you should be a strong communicator, able to describe scientifically
rigorous work to business stakeholders of varying levels of technical
sophistication. You will closely partner with the solution development teams,
and should be intensely curious about how the research is moving the needle for
business. Strong inter-personal and mentoring skills to develop applied science
talent in the team is another important requirement.

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 in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Nice To Haves

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development
• Familiarity with machine translation, foundational models, and speech synthesis

Responsibilities

• drive innovation in one or more areas of machine learning, audio processing, and natural language understanding
• describe scientifically rigorous work to business stakeholders of varying levels of technical sophistication
• closely partner with the solution development teams
• develop applied science talent in the team

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