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Bellevue, Washington · USA job

Senior Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Compression Efficiency Research Team

Amazon

Bellevue, Washington

Job description

Overview

In this role you will advance Prime Video's ability to deliver the highest quality video experiences. You'll own the product, user experience, and technology to push state-of-the-art video quality through DL models and production deployments. You'll collaborate with research scientists and ML engineers to build scalable solutions for content restoration, HDR up-conversion, and perceptual quality under varying network conditions. Your work shapes how customers enjoy Prime Video content across devices and contexts, with a clear focus on real impact and innovation.

Compensation / Benefits
  • health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parental leave
  • restricted stock units (RSUs)
  • sign-on payments
Responsibilities
  • Create ground-truth datasets for model training
  • Design and train video diffusion model architectures for temporal consistency and perceptual quality
  • Deploy and optimize ML models in production workflows
  • Define and measure at-scale success metrics for video quality
  • Explore scene understanding at a semantic level for improved encoding/quality
  • Collaborate with research scientists to advance video encoding and compression
  • Conduct subjective ratings tests and develop quality models that align with human judgments
  • Contribute to development of ML/DL processes, guardrails, and team workflows
  • Support product roadmap discussions with ML/AI considerations
  • Mentor and help hire talent, sharing knowledge across the team
Key requirements
  • 3+ years of building machine learning models for business applications
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
  • collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • strong communication of technical concepts
  • ability to translate research into production impact
  • neural deep learning methods
  • diffusion models for image/video
  • video encoding/compression knowledge

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