Amazon
Sr. Applied Scientist (Lead), Prime Video - Generative AI (Video)
$167K–$260K
Culver City, CA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Location
- Culver City, CA
Sunnyvale, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 3+ years building machine learning models for business applications; PhD, or Master’s degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master’s degree
About the job
Leads research, experimentation, and product development for production-scale generative AI systems that support controllable media creation across video, images, and multimedia.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end research and product development for generative AI, including controllable synthesis across images, video, vector graphics, and multimedia.
- Develop diffusion and flow-based methods to improve model efficiency, controllability, and scalability.
- Build visual understanding and multimodal workflows for pre-visualization, compositing, VFX, and post-production.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of experience building machine learning models for business applications.
- PhD, or Master’s degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a 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, or scipy.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop or Spark.
Pay
167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually (base salary); 192,200.00 - 260,000.00 USD annually (base salary); 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow
AI focus
Generative AI research and production systems for media creation, including diffusion and flow-matching models, 3D/4D generation, motion and camera control, post-training alignment, visual grounding, and multimodal workflows.
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