Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Content Localization, Understanding & Enrichment
About the role
Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video team member, 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!
Key job responsibilities
- Apply state of the art natural language processing and computer vision research to video centric digital media
- Create and maintain the best environment for applied science in order to recruit, retain and develop top talent
- Lead the research direction for a team of deeply talented applied scientists, creating the roadmaps for forward-looking research and communicating them effectively to senior leadership
- Hire and develop applied scientists - growing the team to meet the evolving needs of our customers
About the team
This team's 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 that's 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.
Basic 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 developing and implementing deep learning algorithms, particularly with respect to computer vision algorithms
Preferred qualifications
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Pay
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually
Benefits
- 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
- Parental leave