Applied Scientist, Prime Video Generative AI

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies series documentaries and live sports including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video subscriptions such as Apple TV HBO Max Peacock Crunchyroll and MGM. All customers regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment Prime Videos technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video team member youll have end-to-end ownership of the product user experience design and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. Youll get to work on projects that are fast-paced challenging and varied. Youll also be able to experiment with new possibilities take risks and collaborate with remarkable people.

Well look for you to bring your diverse perspectives ideas and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!

Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist at Prime Video you will have end-to-end ownership of the product related research and experimentation applying advanced machine learning techniques in computer vision (CV) Generative AI multimedia understanding and so on.

Youll work on diverse projects that enhance Prime Videos content localization image/video understanding and content personalization driving impactful innovations for our global audience. Other responsibilities include:
- Research and develop generative models for controllable synthesis across images video vector graphics and multimedia
- Innovate in advanced diffusion and flow-based methods (e.g. inverse flow matching parameter efficient training guided sampling test-time adaptation) to improve efficiency controllability and scalability.
- Advance visual grounding depth and 3D estimation segmentation and matting for integration into pre-visualization compositing VFX and post-production pipelines.
- Design multimodal GenAI workflows including visual-language model tooling structured prompt orchestration agentic pipelines.

A day in the life
Prime Video is pioneering the use of Generative AI to empower the next generation of creatives. Our mission is to make world-class media creation accessible scalable and efficient.

We are seeking an Applied Scientist to advance the state of the art in Generative AI and to deliver these innovations as production-ready systems at Amazon scale. Your work will give creators unprecedented freedom and control while driving new efficiencies across Prime Videos global content and marketing pipelines. This is a newly formed team within Prime Video Science!

- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- 3 years of building models for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience in generative models (diffusion flow transformers)
- Hands-on experience with image/video synthesis and editing techniques
- Proficiency in PyTorch and modern DL toolkits (e.g. Hugging Face ecosystem)

- Experience in professional software development
- Publications in top-tier AI/ML/Graphics Conferences (CVPR ICCV/ECCV SIGGRAPH NeurIPS ICLR)
- Experience with controllable generation methods including emerging approaches (familiarity with LoRA/ControlNet parameter-efficient tuning or test-time training a plus)
- Expertise in one or more of: harmonization relighting style transfer lip-sync segmentation matting depth estimation 3D camera/scene modeling.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 172400.00 - 223400.00 USD annually

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