Sr. Applied Scientist, 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. All customers, whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store and enjoy free content with ads.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop AI solutions for 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 research findings in top conferences and journals.
About the Team
The Prime Video Search Science team owns science solutions 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.
Basic Qualifications
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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