Applied Scientist II, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery Science

Amazon
Sunnyvale, CA, USA / Seattle, WA, USA2026-01-22ONSITE

About the job

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.

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

Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals

Qualifications

Minimum

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 any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred

Experience using Unix/Linux

Experience in professional software development