Applied Scientist II, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery Science Job at P

Applied Scientist II – Prime Video Personalization and Discovery Science

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.

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, experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Develop ML models for various recommendation & search systems using deep learning, online learning, and optimization methods.
• Work closely with other scientists, engineers, and product managers to expand the depth of our product insights with data, create a variety of experiments to determine the high‑impact projects to include in planning roadmaps.
• Stay up‑to‑date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field.
• Publish research findings in top conferences and journals.

A Day in the Life

We are using advanced approaches such as foundation models to connect information about our videos and customers from a variety of information sources, acquiring and processing data sets on a scale that only a few companies in the world can match. This will enable us to recommend titles effectively, even when we don’t have a large behavioral signal (to tackle the cold‑start title problem). It will also allow us to find our customer’s niche interests, helping them discover groups of titles that they didn’t even know existed. We seek creative and customer‑obsessed machine learning scientists who can apply the latest research, state‑of‑the‑art algorithms, and ML to build highly scalable page personalization solutions. You will be a research leader in the space and a hands‑on ML practitioner, guiding and collaborating with talented teams of engineers and scientists and senior leaders in the Prime Video organization. You will also have the opportunity to publish your research at internal and external conferences.

About The Team

The Prime Video Recommendation Science team owns the science solution to power recommendation and personalization experience on various Prime Video surfaces and devices. We work closely with engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD, or Master’s degree and 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.
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high‑performance computing.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Amazon is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include working safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhering to standards of excellence; communicating effectively and respectfully; and following all applicable laws and company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000 per year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400 per year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on factors including market location and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Equity, sign‑on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.

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

Job ID: A3134485