Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Generative AI (Video)

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 subscriptions such as Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of Prime membership, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.

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 work on fast-paced, challenging, and varied projects, experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We value diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our global audience.

About the role

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. As an Applied Scientist, you will advance the state of the art in Generative AI and deliver these innovations as production-ready systems at Amazon scale. Your work will give creators unprecedented freedom and control while driving new efficiencies across Prime Video’s global content and marketing pipelines. This is a newly formed team within Prime Video Science.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop generative models for controllable synthesis across images, video, vector graphics, and multimedia.
• Innovate in advanced diffusion and flow-based methods (e.g., inverse flow matching, parameter-efficient training, guided sampling, test-time adaptation) to improve efficiency, controllability, and scalability.
• Advance visual grounding, depth and 3D estimation, segmentation, and matting for integration into pre-visualization, compositing, VFX, and post-production pipelines.
• Design multimodal GenAI workflows including visual-language model tooling, structured prompt orchestration, and agentic pipelines.
• Work on diverse projects that enhance Prime Video’s content localization, image/video understanding, and content personalization, driving impactful innovations for our global audience.
• Own end-to-end product development, related research, and experimentation, applying advanced machine learning techniques in computer vision (CV), Generative AI, and multimedia understanding.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 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.
• 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

• Experience in professional software development.
• Publications in top-tier AI/ML/Graphics Conferences (CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS, ICLR).
• Experience with controllable generation methods, including emerging approaches (familiarity with LoRA/ControlNet, parameter-efficient tuning, or test-time training a plus).
• Expertise in one or more of: harmonization, relighting, style transfer, lip-sync, segmentation, matting, depth estimation, 3D camera/scene modeling.

Pay

USA, CA, Culver City - $142,800.00 - $193,200.00 USD annually

USA, CA, Sunnyvale - $171,600.00 - $222,200.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (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 amazon.jobs/en/benefits.