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

Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Content Understanding

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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 programming from Prime Video add‑on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, 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.

About Prime Video Technology

We’re building state‑of‑the‑art digital video experiences. As a technologist, you’ll have end‑to‑end ownership of product, user experience, design, and technology to deliver our next‑generation entertainment experiences. You’ll work on fast‑paced, challenging, and varied projects, experiment with new possibilities, and collaborate with remarkable people.

For examples of our work, please see a selection of our publications from ECCV, ICCV and ICLR:

• https://www.amazon.science/publications/diffsign-ai-assisted-generation-of-customizable-sign-language-videos-with-enhanced-realism
• https://www.amazon.science/publications/text-guided-video-masked-autoencoder
• https://www.amazon.science/publications/look-globally-and-locally-inter-intra-contrastive-learning-from-unlabeled-videos

Key Responsibilities

Defining technical strategy: Collaborate with leaders to define long‑term problems to serve customers and formulate our science and engineering strategy.

Execution: Bring strategy to life, directly deliver key components of our science roadmap, and act as a force‑multiplier for other scientists.

Developing Others: Mentor and coach junior scientists, drive scientific and technical best practices, and elevate the quality of the output produced by the team.

About The Team

Our Prime Video Content Understanding team builds holistic media representations (e.g., descriptions of scenes, semantic embeddings) and applies them to new customer experiences in the supply chain. We enable instant recaps, skip‑intro timing, ad placement, search, and content moderation.

As an Applied Scientist, you will lead end‑to‑end research and deployment of multi‑modal models for downstream applications.

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Equal Opportunity Statement

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

Compensation and Benefits

Base pay for this position ranges from $136,000 to $223,400 per year depending on geographic market. For more information, see https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.