Drimva

Amazon

Senior Applied Scientist, Linear Personalization Experience Team (LPEX)

$167K–$260K

Boston, MA +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026

Location
Boston, MA
Sunnyvale, CA
Seattle, WA
SEATTLE, WA
Experience
PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience; 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
Education
PhD, or Master's degree

About the job

Leads science strategy and builds, evaluates, and deploys real-time machine-learning personalization and recommendation systems for Prime Video Linear TV.

What you'll do

  • Set the science strategy and roadmap for Linear TV personalization, connecting research to customer and business outcomes.
  • Own the machine-learning lifecycle, from problem formulation and model development through experimentation and production deployment.
  • Run experiments, partner with product and engineering teams, publish research, and mentor scientists and engineers.

What they ask for

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

Nice to have

  • Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
  • Experience with AWS services including S3, Redshift, Sagemaker, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, and EC2

Pay

USD 192,200.00 - 260,000.00 annually (base salary); USD 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 annually (base salary)

Tools

Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, Tensorflow, AWS

AI focus

Builds AI-powered personalization and recommendation systems for Linear TV, optimizing content discovery and viewer engagement through real-time machine learning.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)