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Amazon Software Development Engineer - AI, Prime Video - Personalization and Discovery Science in Seattle, Washington
Description
Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports—all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices world-wide. In addition, Prime members in US can also subscribe to 100+ channels, including Max, discovery+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Prime Video is just one of the savings, convenience, and entertainment benefits included in a Prime membership. More than 200 million Prime members around the world enjoy access to Amazon’s enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast delivery.
Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Do you want to invent, disrupt and redefine what entertainment means for fans, creators, and communities all around the globe?
We are looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Software Engineers to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will spend your time as a hands-on machine learning practitioner and a research leader. You will play a key role on the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up. At the end of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon.com customers worldwide.
Key job responsibilities
Develop AI solutions for various Prime Video Search systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, and optimization methods;
Understand problem space, identify gaps and opportunity for improvement, create roadmap and plans for delivering business goals;
Lead cross-team collaboration and work closely with engineers and product managers to deliver AI solutions end-to-end;
Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses;
Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders;
Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field;
Mentor and grow junior scientists and interns;
Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals.
About the team
Prime Video Personalization and Discovery science team owns different aspects of personalization algorithms, from user-item relevance, item-item relevance, and page composition, to name a few. We work closely with the engineering teams to put our models in production.
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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