Senior Applied Scientist — Video AI & Generative Modeling

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs and equity

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking an Applied Scientist to own end-to-end ML features, conduct research, and apply advanced techniques in Computer Vision and Generative AI. You will work on diffusion/flow-based models, 3D scene understanding, and multimodal GenAI workflows across images, video, and graphics.

The role requires a PhD or Master’s with 6+ years of applied research, plus hands-on ML model development and software engineering experience.

Qualifications

• PhD, or Master’s degree plus 6+ years of applied research experience.
• 3+ years of building ML models for business applications.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related languages.
• Experience in generative models (diffusion, flow, transformers).
• Hands-on experience with image/video synthesis and editing techniques.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop generative models for controllable synthesis across images, video, vector graphics, and multimedia.
• Innovate in diffusion and flow-based methods to improve efficiency, controllability, and scalability.
• Advance visual grounding, depth and 3D estimation, segmentation, and matting for pre-visualization and VFX pipelines.
• Design multimodal GenAI workflows including visual-language model tooling and structured prompt orchestration.

Skills

ML model development

Programming: Java/C++/Python

Generative models

Image/video synthesis

Software development experience

Publications in AI conferences

Controllable generation methods

3D/Depth estimation

Education

PhD or Master’s degree in a relevant field

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking an Applied Scientist to own end-to-end ML features, conduct research, and apply advanced techniques in Computer Vision and Generative AI. You will work on diffusion/flow-based models, 3D scene understanding, and multimodal GenAI workflows across images, video, and graphics.

The role requires a PhD or Master’s with 6+ years of applied research, plus hands-on ML model development and software engineering experience.