Senior Applied Scientist, Prime Video: Playback Intelligence Job at Amazon in Se

Job description

Job ID: 2932837 | Amazon.com Services LLC

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.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment?

Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

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.

As a Senior Applied Scientist in the Prime Video Playback Intelligence organization, you will have deep subject matter expertise in applied machine learning and data science, with specializations in video streaming optimization, information retrieval, anomaly detection and root-causing systems, large language models, and generative AI across various modalities.

Key job responsibilities

1. You will work with multiple teams of scientists, engineers, and product managers to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables leading strategic efforts to enhance customer quality of experiences.
2. Problem spaces you will be working on include: improving the customer playback quality of experience across Video on Demand, Live Events and Linear Content.
   
   You’ll aim to reduce the time/cost/effort to optimize the customer experience as well as detect, root-cause, and mitigate defects in the customer experience.
   
   You’ll seek to understand the depth and nuance of streaming video at scale and identify opportunities to grow our business and improve customer quality of experience via principled ML/AI solutions.
   
   You will also lead integration of new algorithms and processes into existing modeling stacks, simplify and streamline the existing modeling stacks, and develop testing and evaluation strategies.
   
   Ultimately, you'll work backwards from the desired outcomes and lead the way on determining the ideal solution (statistical techniques, traditional ML, GenAI, etc).
3. You will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice.
   
   You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them.
4. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development.
   
   You will be technically fearless and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions.
   
   You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).
5. You will also work with external academic partners to support our in-house talent with direct access to cutting edge research and mentoring.

A day in the life

We love solving challenging and hard problems in our quest to innovate on behalf of our customers and provide the best video streaming experience.

We push the boundaries to leverage and invent technologies which help create unrivaled experiences for our customers to help us move fast in a growing and changing environment.

We use data to guide our decisions, work closely with our engineering and product counterparts, and partner with other Science teams as well as academic institutions to learn and guide in an environment of innovation.

Our team works on several S-Team and SVP goals with significant science dependencies.

Your work will have high visibility and will directly impact both customer experience and business outcomes.

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
• Hands-on experience with designing and prototyping AI solutions for real world applications.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Track record of delivering large-scale and high-quality science solutions.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, 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, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information.

If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, 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/or other benefits.

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This position will remain posted until filled.

Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Required Skill Profession

Mathematical Science Occupations