Software Development Engineer - AI, Prime Video - Personalization and Discovery Science

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports—all
available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices world-wide. In addition,
Prime members in US 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 around the
world enjoy access to Amazon’s enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast
delivery.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Do you want to
invent, disrupt and redefine what entertainment means for fans, creators, and
communities all around the globe?

We are looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Software
Engineers to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime
Video even better for our customers. You will spend your time as a hands-on
machine learning practitioner and a research leader. You will play a key role on
the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up. At
the end of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions
benefit millions of Amazon.com customers worldwide.

About the team
Prime Video Personalization and Discovery science team owns different aspects of
personalization algorithms, from user-item relevance, item-item relevance, and
page composition, to name a few. We work closely with the engineering teams to
put our models in production.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Develop AI solutions for various Prime Video Search systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, and optimization methods;
• Understand problem space, identify gaps and opportunity for improvement, create roadmap and plans for delivering business goals;
• Lead cross-team collaboration and work closely with engineers and product managers to deliver AI solutions end-to-end;
• Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses;
• Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders;
• Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field;
• Mentor and grow junior scientists and interns;
• Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals.

Benefits

• Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level