Senior Applied Scientist, Content Discovery

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to own end-to-end ML-driven content presentation and discovery experiences for Prime Video. You will lead projects across multimodal data, recommender systems, and real-time signals, shaping customer interactions at scale.

The role requires deep expertise in machine learning, strong coding skills in Java/C++/Python, and a track record of delivering production-grade systems.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional science initiatives spanning recommender systems, AI agent development and evaluation across modalities; drive projects to successful outcomes.
• Bridge science and engineering for production-scale deployment; develop production-ready science code meeting performance and reliability standards.
• Mentor and develop technical talent; foster scientific rigor and continuous learning within the team.

Skills

Java/C++/Python

Education

PhD or Master + 6+ years experience

Tools

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to own end-to-end ML-driven content presentation and discovery experiences for Prime Video. You will lead projects across multimodal data, recommender systems, and real-time signals, shaping customer interactions at scale.

The role requires deep expertise in machine learning, strong coding skills in Java/C++/Python, and a track record of delivering production-grade systems.