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Sr. Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Personalization and Discovery Science

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Sr. Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Personalization and Discovery Science

full-timePosted: Aug 5, 2026Updated: Aug 27, 2026Sunnyvale, California, United States

Job Description

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 add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. 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. 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! We are looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Applied Scientist to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will spend your time as a hands-on machine learning practitioner and a research leader. You will play a key role on the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up. At the end of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon.com customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities - Develop AI solutions for various Prime Video Search systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, and optimization methods; - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; - 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 the field; - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals. About the team Our team works at the intersection of generative recommendations, multi-objective reinforcement learning, and whole-page optimization. We're rethinking how recommendation systems construct experiences end-to-end, moving beyond ranked lists toward intelligent, adaptive page-level decision-making at scale.

Locations

  • Sunnyvale, California, United States
  • Seattle, Washington, United States
  • New York, New York, United States
  • Seattle, Washington, United States

Salary

192,200 - 260,000 USD / yearly

Skills Required

  • neural deep learning methodsintermediate
  • modeling tools such as Rintermediate
  • large scale distributed systems such as Hadoopintermediate

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience (experience, 3 years)
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience (experience, 6 years)
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language (experience)
  • Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning (experience)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc. (experience)
  • Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc. (experience)
  • Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. (experience)

Responsibilities

  • Develop AI solutions for various Prime Video Search systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, and optimization methods;
  • Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end;
  • 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 the field;
  • Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals.

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