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

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.

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. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!

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 your research findings in top conferences and journals

A day in the life We’re 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 at scale. This enables us to recommend titles effectively, even when we don’t have a large behavioral signal (to tackle the cold-start title problem), and to find customers’ niche interests by suggesting groups of titles they didn’t know existed. You’ll be a research leader and hands-on ML practitioner, guiding and collaborating with engineers, scientists, and senior leaders in Prime Video, with opportunities to publish research at internal and external conferences.

About the team Prime Video Recommendation Science team owns science solutions to power recommendation and personalization experiences on various Prime Video surfaces and devices. We work closely with engineering teams to launch 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

Equal opportunity employer note : 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400 / 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. Depending 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. For more information, please visit amazon.jobs / workplace / employee-benefits.

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