Sr. Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Personalization and Discovery Science

Sr. Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Personalization and Discovery Science

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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 exclusive access to coverage of live sports. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can access programming from subscriptions such as Apple TV, Peacock Premium Plus, HBO Max, FOX One, Crunchyroll, and MGM+, as well as more than 900 free ad‑support (FAST) Channels, rent or buy titles, and enjoy even more content for free with ads.

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, experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We look for a self‑motivated, passionate, and resourceful Applied Scientist to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill‑sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers.

You’ll spend your time as a hands‑on machine learning practitioner and a research leader, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up and seeing your contributions benefit millions of  customers worldwide.

• Develop AI solutions for various Prime Video Search systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, and optimization methods.
• Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement, and launch 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.
• Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals.

Prime Video Search Science team owns science solution to power search experience on various devices, from sourcing, relevance, ranking, to name a few. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.

• PhD, or Master’s degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.

• 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.

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