Amazon
Applied Scientist II, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery Science, Prime Video - Personalization and Discovery Science
$143K–$223K
Sunnyvale, CA +2 · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Seattle, WA
New York, NY - Experience
- 3+ years building models for business applications; PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
About the job
Develops machine-learning models and personalization solutions to help Prime Video customers discover relevant content, including titles with limited behavioral data.
What you'll do
- Develop content-understanding and customer-behavior foundation models using deep learning, multimodal learning, and time-series techniques.
- Design, implement, launch, and evaluate personalization solutions through offline and online experiments and data analysis.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders; communicate findings and publish research.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
- Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, or high-performance computing.
Nice to have
- Experience using Unix/Linux.
- Experience in professional software development.
Pay
USD 171,600.00 - 222,200.00 annually (base salary); USD 172,400.00 - 223,400.00 annually (base salary); USD 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux
AI focus
Build foundation models for video and text understanding, model customer behavior and viewing trajectories, and develop scalable recommendations and personalization, including for cold-start titles and niche interests.
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