Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. On Prime Video, customers can find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios- produced series and movies Road House, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Fallout, Reacher, The Boys, and The Idea of You; licensed fan favorites Dawson’s Creek and IF; Prime member exclusive access to coverage of live sports including Thursday Night Football, WNBA, and NWSL, and acclaimed sports documentaries including Bye Bye Barry and Federer; and programming from partners such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll, and MGM+ via Prime Video add-on subscriptions, as well as more than 500 free ad-supported (FAST) Channels. Prime members in the U.S. can share a variety of benefits, including Prime Video, by using Amazon Household. Prime Video is one benefit among many that provides savings, convenience, and entertainment as part of the Prime membership. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles, including blockbusters such as Challengers and The Fall Guy, via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy content such as Jury Duty and Bosch: Legacy free with ads on Freevee. Customers can also go behind the scenes of their favorite movies and series with exclusive X-Ray access. For more info visit
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!
Our Prime Video Content Understanding team builds holistic media representations (e.g. descriptions of scenes, semantic embeddings) and apply them to new customer experiences supply chain problems. Our technology spans the entire Prime Video catalogue globally, and we enable instant recaps, skip intro timing, ad placement, search, and content moderation.
As a Sr. Applied Scientist in our Content Understanding Team, you will lead the end-to-end research and deployment of multi-modal models applied to a variety of downstream applications.
We are seeking a science leader with deep knowledge of multi-modal content understanding, including Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Multi-Modal Language Models (MMLMs). The Sr. AS will establish scientific research directions, best practices and frameworks to be leveraged across multiple teams. You will help drive the alignment of Engineering roadmaps to support scientific capabilities, and you will be a voice of future technology for our Product partners.
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!
For examples of our work, please see a selection of our publications from ECCV, ICCV and ICLR:
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Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Applied Scientist, your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
Defining vision & technical strategy: You will collaborate with other leaders in Prime Video to define the problem we will solve long-term to serve customers. You will formulate our science and engineering strategy for achieving this vision.
Execution: You will be at the forefront in bring the strategy to life. You will directly deliver key components of our science and research roadmap. You will act as a force-multiplier for other scientists in the team.
Developing Others: You will mentor and coach junior scientists in the team. You will drive scientific and technical best practices for others and elevate the quality of the output produced by the entire team.
About the team
Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports—all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. U.S. Prime members 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.
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
Job Tags
Full time, Night shift,