Applied Scientist, AI Research, Prime Video - Content Enrichment

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 Videos technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video technologist youll have end-to-end ownership of the product user experience design and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. Youll get to work on projects that are fast-paced challenging and varied. Youll also be able to experiment with new possibilities take risks and collaborate with remarkable people.

Were seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to join our innovative team developing an AI-powered animation studio platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of animation production by creating novel AI solutions that empower creative professionals.


Key job responsibilities
- Lead the technical development of AI models for animation generation
- Design and implement novel architectures for character creation and manipulation
- Develop efficient pipelines for storyboard generation and animation synthesis
- Create solutions for maintaining consistency in character appearance and movement
- Optimize models for production-quality output at scale
- Collaborate with creative professionals to understand and address industry needs
- Mentor junior scientists and engineers

About the team
Our AI-powered animation studio aims to revolutionize the animation production pipeline by providing creators with intelligent tools for character development storyboarding and high-quality animation generation. Youll be working at the intersection of machine learning computer vision and creative arts to build the next generation of animation tools.

- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
- PhD or a Masters degree and experience in CS CE ML or related field research
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- 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

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
- Experience with generative models for still images and video generation (GANs Diffusion Models VAEs NeRFs) and 3D modeling and animation studios

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