Amazon
Sr. Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Personalization and Discovery Science
$167K–$260K
Sunnyvale, CA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 10, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Seattle, WA
New York, NY - Experience
- 6+ years of applied research experience with a Master's degree; 5+ years building machine learning models for business applications.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
About the job
Develops and launches machine-learning solutions for Prime Video Search, evaluating their impact and communicating or publishing research findings.
What you'll do
- Build AI solutions for Prime Video Search using deep learning, GenAI, reinforcement learning, and optimization methods.
- Partner with engineers and product managers to design, implement, and launch solutions; evaluate them with offline and online A/B experiments.
- Communicate findings, keep current with modeling techniques, and publish research in top conferences and journals.
What they ask for
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- 5+ years of experience building machine learning models for business applications.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
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
USD 192,200.00 - 260,000.00 annually base salary; USD 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 annually base salary; USD 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 annually base salary
Tools
Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn
AI focus
Develop AI and machine-learning solutions for Prime Video Search, including deep learning, GenAI, reinforcement learning, and optimization.
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