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Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios · 2 hours ago

Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Content Understanding, Localization & Enrichment Team

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$172K/yr - $222K/yr

3+ years exp

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming. The Applied Scientist role involves driving innovation in content localization, focusing on areas such as machine learning and audio processing, while collaborating closely with solution development teams.

InternetSoftwareWeb Development

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented individuals to help us push the envelope of content localization

We work on a broad array of research areas and applications, including but not limited to multimodal machine translation, speech synthesis, speech analysis, and asset quality assessment

Candidates should be prepared to help drive innovation in one or more areas of machine learning, audio processing, and natural language understanding

The ideal candidate would have experience in audio processing, natural language understanding and machine learning

Familiarity with machine translation, foundational models, and speech synthesis will be a plus

As an Applied Scientist, you should be a strong communicator, able to describe scientifically rigorous work to business stakeholders of varying levels of technical sophistication

You will closely partner with the solution development teams, and should be intensely curious about how the research is moving the needle for business

Strong inter-personal and mentoring skills to develop applied science talent in the team is another important requirement

Qualification

Machine LearningNatural Language UnderstandingAudio ProcessingProgramming in JavaProgramming in PythonAlgorithmsData StructuresNumerical OptimizationData MiningParallel ComputingDistributed ComputingUnix/LinuxProfessional Software DevelopmentCommunicationInterpersonal SkillsMentoring Skills

Required

3+ years of building models for business application experience

PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience

Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred

Experience using Unix/Linux

Experience in professional software development

Benefits

Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Company

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios

Prime Video delivers an entertainment destination unlike any other—fast, reliable, personal, effortless, and delightful.

Founded in 2006

Seattle, Washington, USA

10001+ employees

http://primevideo.com

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