Applied Scientist, Insights, Prime Video
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Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?
Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.
The Insights team is looking for an Applied Scientist for our London office experienced in generative AI and large models. This is a hands-on role with Prime Video wide impact working with development teams across the UK, India, and the US. This greenfield project will deliver features that reduce the operational load for internal Prime Video builders and for this, you will need to develop personalized recommendations for their services.
You will lead the design of machine learning models that scale to very large quantities of data across multiple dimensions. You will embody scientific rigor, designing and executing experiments to demonstrate the technical effectiveness and business value of your methods. You will work alongside other scientists and engineering teams to deliver your research into production systems.
Successful candidates will have strong technical ability, excellent teamwork and communication skills, and a strong motivation to deliver customer value from their research. Our position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and non-technical skills and make a global impact immediately.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop machine learning algorithms for high-scale recommendations problems.
- Rapidly design, prototype and test many possible hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative analysis and business judgement.
- Collaborate with software engineers to integrate successful experimental results into Prime Video wide processes.
- Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports.
About the team
Our team owns the Prime Video observability features for development teams. We consume PBs of logs daily which feed into multiple observability features focussed on reducing the customer impact time. In 2025, we are expanding our remit to consume data from more sources to provide more holistic observability for our development teams.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD, or a Master's degree and experience in CS, CE, ML or related field research
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in building machine learning models for business application
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
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