Applied Scientist, AI Automation, Prime Video

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

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!

We are forming a new organization within Prime Video to redefine our operational
landscape through the power of artificial intelligence. As a Applied Scientist
within this initiative, you will be a technical leader helping to design and
build the intelligent systems that power our vision. You will tackle complex and
ambiguous problems, designing and delivering scalable and resilient agentic AI
and ML solutions from the ground up. You will not only write high-quality,
maintainable software and models, but also mentor other scientists, influence
our technical strategy, and drive engineering best practices across the team.
Your work will directly contribute to making Prime Video's operations more
efficient and will set the technical foundation for years to come.

We're seeking candidates with strong experience in computer vision and
generative AI technologies. In this role, you'll apply cutting-edge techniques
in image and video understanding, visual content generation, and multimodal AI
systems to transform how Prime Video operates at scale.

Requirements

• 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 any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of highly scalable, available, and resilient services for our AI automation platform.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and robust code to solve complex business problems, building flexible systems without over-engineering.
• Act as a technical leader and mentor for other engineers on the team, assisting with career growth and encouraging excellence.
• Work through ambiguous requirements, cut through complexity, and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle, including design, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Work closely with product managers, scientists, and other engineers to build and launch new features and systems.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree