Prime Video is a firststop 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 Studiosproduced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video addon 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 bestinclass digital video experience.
As a Prime Video technologist youll have endtoend ownership of the product user experience design and technology required to deliver stateoftheart experiences for our customers. Youll get to work on projects that are fastpaced challenging and varied. Youll also be able to experiment with new possibilities take risks and collaborate with remarkable people.
Well look for you to bring your diverse perspectives ideas and skillsets 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!
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Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist your daytoday responsibilities will include:
Defining technical strategy: You will collaborate with other leaders in Prime Video to define the problem we will solve longterm to serve customers. You will formulate our science and engineering strategy for achieving this vision.
: You will be at the forefront in bring the strategy to life. You will directly deliver key components of our science and research roadmap. You will act as a forcemultiplier for other scientists in the team.
Developing Others: You will mentor and coach junior scientists in the team. You will drive scientific and technical best practices for others and elevate the quality of the output produced by the entire team.
About the team
Our Prime Video Content Understanding team builds holistic media representations (e.g. descriptions of scenes semantic embeddings) and apply them to new customer experiences supply chain problems. Our technology spans the entire Prime Video catalogue globally and we enable instant recaps skip intro timing ad placement search and content moderation.
As an Applied Scientist in our Content Understanding Team you will lead the endtoend research and deployment of multimodal models applied to a variety of downstream applications.
We are seeking a science leader with deep knowledge of multimodal content understanding including Vision Language Models (VLMs) and MultiModal Language Models (MMLMs).
PhD or Masters 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 using Unix/Linux
Experience in professional software development
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.