Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Generative AI

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. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports. 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.

Prime Video is pioneering the use of Generative AI to empower the next generation of creatives. Our mission is to make world-class media creation accessible, scalable, and efficient. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to advance the state of the art in Generative AI and to deliver these innovations as production-ready systems at Amazon scale.

Responsibilities

• Build generative AI models that create production-ready content, including movie content, localized assets, and visual marketing materials used across Prime Video's global platform.
• Drive end-to-end machine learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.
• Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models.
• Run experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.
• Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
• Share knowledge and research outcomes via internal and external conferences and journal publications.

Qualifications

The basic qualifications for this role include a PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience, 3+ years of building models for business application experience, and experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.

• Experience in generative models (diffusion, flow, transformers)
• Hands-on experience with image/video synthesis and editing techniques
• Proficiency in PyTorch and modern DL toolkits (e.g., Hugging Face ecosystem)

Preferred qualifications include experience in professional software development, publications in top-tier AI/ML/Graphics Conferences, and expertise in one or more of: harmonization, relighting, style transfer, lip-sync, segmentation, matting, depth estimation, 3D camera/scene modeling.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. The base salary range for this position is $172,400.00 - $223,400.00 USD annually, and the Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).