Applied Scientist , Prime Video Personalization and Discovery, Prime Video Personalization & Discovery

Job description

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 looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Applied Scientist to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will spend your time as a hands-on machine learning practitioner and a research leader, improving how customers search for and discover what to watch. You will play a key role on the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up.

At the end of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Prime Video customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

Develop machine learning solutions for Prime Video Search systems, including query understanding, retrieval, and ranking, using deep learning, reinforcement learning, and optimization methods;

Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch machine learning solutions end-to-end;

Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses;

Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders;

Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field;

Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals.