Applied Scientist, Prime Video Content Reasoning, Enrichment & Localization

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 subscriptions such as Apple TV HBO Max Peacock 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 team member 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.

Well 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!

As an Applied Scientist you will apply state of the art natural language processing and computer vision research to video centric digital media. We are looking for scientists with expertise in vision-language models/multimodal LLMs and long-form content understanding (full movies/episode vs. short clips). You will be dealing with architectures that handle long-context understanding and causal reasoning across extended temporal sequences.

Key job responsibilities
Our team builds multi-modal machine learning technologies to enrich and understand video content. We aim not only to understand individual components within the content itself but also their relationships to each other to provide a holistic and broader contextual understanding. This powers the next generation of video understanding and search capabilities for Prime Video.


About the team
Prime Videos Content Localization Understanding & Enrichment organization is responsible for 1) enabling Prime Video to see and understand video content including characters scenes dialogue events & visual elements and 2) delivering localized accessible content that meets a consistent cinematic quality standard at scale.

This teams mission is to deeply understand all content and empower all customers with relevant language options innovative accessibility assists and rich title-information across all their content-experiences on Prime Video. We create and publish content on-time thats meaningful accurate and accessible to every customer globally. We delight our customers by pushing the boundaries of content understanding and enrichment. Through inclusion and innovation we do the most fulfilling work of our career.

- 3 years of building models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience developing and implementing deep learning algorithms particularly with respect to computer vision algorithms

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA SEATTLE - 142800.00 - 193200.00 USD annually