Applied Scientist (Speech AI), Content Reasoning, Enrichment and Localization

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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!

We are looking for passionate hard-working and talented individuals to help us push the envelope of content localization. We are seeking scientists with experience in audio processing speech/voice AI and machine learning. We work on a broad array of research areas and applications including but not limited to multimodal machine translation speech synthesis speech analysis and asset quality assessment. Candidates should be prepared to help drive innovation in one or more areas of machine learning audio processing and natural language understanding. If you have experience with speech synthesis and foundational models then thats a huge plus!

Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist you should be a strong communicator able to describe scientifically rigorous work to business stakeholders of varying levels of technical sophistication. You will closely partner with the solution development teams and should be intensely curious about how the research is moving the needle for business. Strong inter-personal and mentoring skills to develop applied science talent in the team is another important requirement.
- Lead research and development of speech and audio generation technology and end-to-end speech-to-speech architecture
- Develop audio processing solutions for production environments including source separation enhancement and mixing
- Define the research roadmap for your area identify high-impact problems and communicate technical direction to senior leadership
- Publish research contribute to the broader scientific community and bring external advances into production systems

A day in the life
You might start your morning reviewing experimental results and refining a model architecture before syncing with your engineering partners on integration plans. After lunch you could be whiteboarding a new approach to a problem your team recently identified then writing up findings for an internal science review. You will regularly present your work to peers and stakeholders participate in code and design reviews and explore emerging research that could unlock new possibilities for your team.

About the team
Our team is driven by a shared commitment to applying science in ways that create meaningful impact for customers. We value rigorous research collaborative problem-solving and a willingness to experiment with new ideas. You will work alongside talented scientists and engineers in an inclusive environment where your contributions shape the direction of our work. We are focused on building solutions that matter at scale and we are looking for teammates who are energized by that challenge.

- 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 in building speech recognition machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g. commercial speech products or government speech projects)

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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