Applied Science Manager: Content Understanding & Search

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 249,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Prime Video is seeking an Applied Science Manager to lead Content Understanding and build systems that help machines watch, describe, and find content across the catalog. You will own strategy, execution, and delivery of scalable content understanding solutions, while mentoring a team of scientists and engineers.

Based in Seattle, WA, you will collaborate with teams across Prime Video to align outputs with product needs, drive adoption, and deliver reliable building blocks for

Qualifications

• 4+ years of applied research experience.
• 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience.
• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical direction and roadmap across our 'understanding' and 'search' workstreams — making sure our work connects to Prime Video's broader goals around content intelligence.
• Lead and grow a high‑performing team of scientists and engineers, building a culture of scientific excellence, customer focus, and reliable delivery.
• Partner with teams across Prime Video (personalization, search etc) to understand what they need from us, shape our outputs to be reliable building blocks for their products, and drive adoption.
• Own delivery end‑to‑end — from early research and experimentation all the way through launching production systems that run at the scale of Prime Video's full catalog.
• Define and track success metrics for quality, reliability, and real‑world impact on downstream products, continuously raising the bar on what 'good' looks like.
• Manage ambiguity across a broad set of workstreams, make clear prioritization decisions, and communicate trade-offs effectively to senior leadership.

Skills

Applied research

ML management

NLP

Information Retrieval

Analytics

Java

Python

C++

Education

PhD or Master's with 6+ years applied research

Job description

Amazon Prime Video is seeking an Applied Science Manager to lead Content Understanding and build systems that help machines watch, describe, and find content across the catalog. You will own strategy, execution, and delivery of scalable content understanding solutions, while mentoring a team of scientists and engineers.

Based in Seattle, WA, you will collaborate with teams across Prime Video to align outputs with product needs, drive adoption, and deliver reliable building blocks for