Applied Scientist Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Would you like to shape the future of the video entertainment industry for movies, TV and live sports events? Does solving complex problems within large scale systems excite you? If you answered yes, we have an opportunity for you!

Prime Video is disrupting the traditional television and movie industry with a growing library of high-quality media. Prime Video launched in 2007 and has quickly become a strategic priority for the company, reflected in the service's recent expansion into over 240 countries and territories worldwide. Amazon invests in acquiring, producing and programming TV shows, movies and live events including must-see exclusive series like The Grand Tour, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, American Gods, The Man in the High Castle, UFC, Thursday Night Football and more.

To help our organization quickly deliver valuable features to Prime Video customers, Prime Video's Compliance and Classification team is constantly innovating on behalf of our global audiences. The Video Compliance and Classification team specializes in machine learning and computer vision to understand and enhance our content for our audiences. The team deploys production supervised learning and recurrent neural network systems to to review audio, video and metadata content and provide guidance for appeal, age appropriateness, genre, and interest. This team innovates, with many novel patents and inventions in the motion picture and television industry the team is highly respected and motivated to extend the state of the art.

As a member of our team, you will apply your deep knowledge of machine learning to concrete problems that have broad cross-organizational, global, and technology impact. Your work will focus on retrieving, cleansing and preparing large scale datasets, training and evaluating models and deploying them to production where we continuously monitor and evaluate. You will work on large engineering efforts that solve significantly complex problems facing global customers. You will be trusted to operate with independence and are often assigned to focus on areas with significant impact on audience satisfaction.. You must be equally comfortable digging in to customer requirements as you are drilling into design with development teams and developing production ready learning models. You consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions.

You will work with internal and external stakeholders, cross-functional partners, and end-users around the world at all levels. Our team makes a big impact because nothing is more important to us than pleasing our customers, continually earning their trust, and thinking long term. You are empowered to bring new technologies and deep learning approaches to your solutions.

We embrace the challenges of a fast paced market and evolving technologies, paving the way to universal availability of content. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers. This is a young and evolving business where creativity and drive will have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide.