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Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios is hiring: Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Con

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, New York, NY, United States, 10261

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Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Content Understanding

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Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experiences. 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 work on fast-paced, challenging, and varied projects, with opportunities to experiment, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

About The Team

Our Prime Video Content Understanding team builds holistic media representations (e.g. descriptions of scenes, semantic embeddings) and applies them to a variety of downstream applications. Our technology spans the entire Prime Video catalogue globally, enabling features such as instant recaps, skip intro timing, ad placement, search, and content moderation. The team leads end-to-end research and deployment of multi-modal models for downstream applications. We seek a science leader with deep knowledge of multi-modal content understanding, including Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Multi-Modal Language Models (MMLMs).

Key job responsibilities

  • Defining technical strategy: Collaborate with Prime Video leaders to define long-term problems and formulate the science and engineering strategy to serve customers.
  • Execution: Deliver key components of the science and research roadmap and act as a force-multiplier for other scientists in the team.
  • Developing Others: Mentor and coach junior scientists; drive scientific and technical best practices to elevate team output.

Qualifications

  • PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
  • 3+ years of building models for business applications
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience using Unix/Linux
  • Experience in professional software development

EEO and Benefits

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, please visit the accommodations page for more information. For compensation information, visit the employee benefits page.

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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