Amazon is hiring: Applied Scientist, Prime Video Sports in Santa Clara

Job ID: 2823539 | Amazon Development Center (Tel Aviv)

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in helping shape the future of movies and television? Do you want to help define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.

We are looking for an Applied Scientist to embark on our journey to build a Prime Video Sports tech team in Israel from ground up. Our team will focus on developing products to allow for personalizing the customers’ experience and providing them real-time insights using Computer Vision (CV) and Machine Learning (ML). You will get a chance to work on greenfield, cutting-edge and large-scale engineering and science projects.

Key job responsibilities

We are looking for an Applied Scientist with domain expertise in Computer Vision or Recommendation Systems to lead development of new algorithms and E2E solutions. You will be part of a team of applied scientists and software development engineers responsible for research, design, development and deployment of algorithms into production pipelines. You will also drive publications of original work in top-tier conferences in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. You must be a self-starter and be able to learn on the go.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- PhD or Master plus experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning or related field
- Excellent coding and design skills, proficiency with programming languages such as C/C++, Java, or Python
- Strong CS fundamentals in data structures, problem solving, algorithm design and complexity analysis

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Significant peer-reviewed scientific contributions in premier journals and conferences
- Experience in building production grade deep learning models for computer vision, recommendation systems, or related fields.
- Experience with defining research and development practices in an applied environment
- Solid knowledge of big data and cloud technologies (e.g., Spark, AWS, etc.)
- Scientific thinking and the ability to invent, a track record of thought leadership and contributions that have advanced the field
- Track record in creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art
- Technical writing, verbal communication, and cross discipline collaboration skills
- Background in classical CV algorithms is a plus.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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