Applied Scientist II, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery Science

About the role

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop foundation models for content understanding using state-of-the-art deep learning and multimodal learning techniques to analyze video and text
• Build time sequence foundation models to understand and predict customer behavior patterns and viewing trajectories
• Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch solutions end-to-end across various Prime Video experiences
• 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 foundation models, multimodal learning, and time series analysis

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• 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