Amazon
Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Generative AI (Video)
$143K–$223K
Culver City, CA +2 · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Location
- Culver City, CA
Sunnyvale, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 3+ years building models for business application; alternatively, 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
Researches and builds production-ready generative AI systems for controllable media creation, including video, images, and multimedia workflows.
What you'll do
- Develop generative models and diffusion or flow-based methods for controllable media synthesis.
- Advance visual grounding, depth and 3D estimation, segmentation, and matting for production pipelines.
- Design multimodal generative AI workflows using visual-language tools, structured prompts, and agentic pipelines.
What they ask for
- 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.
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
- Experience in generative models (diffusion, flow, transformers) and hands-on experience with image/video synthesis and editing techniques.
Nice to have
- Publications in top-tier AI/ML/Graphics Conferences (CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS, ICLR).
- Experience with controllable generation methods, including familiarity with LoRA/ControlNet, parameter-efficient tuning, or test-time training.
Pay
142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually (base salary); 171,600.00 - 222,200.00 USD annually (base salary); 172,400.00 - 223,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, diffusion, flow, transformers, LoRA/ControlNet
AI focus
Generative AI research and production systems for controllable image, video, and multimedia creation; diffusion and flow-based methods, 3D/4D scene and character generation, motion and camera control, post-training alignment, visual understanding, and multimodal workflows.
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