Applied Scientist, Prime Video Sports Personalization, Prime Video Sports Personalization

Description

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 from Originals and Exclusive content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at any time and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on

We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to join our Prime Video Sports personalization team in Israel. Our team is dedicated to developing state-of-the-art science to personalize the customer experience and help customers seamlessly find any live event in our selection. You will have the opportunity to work on innovative, large-scale projects that push the boundaries of what's possible in sports content delivery and engagement. Your expertise will be crucial in tackling complex challenges such as information retrieval, sequential modeling, real-time model optimization, utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs), and building advanced recommender systems.

Key job responsibilities

We are looking for an Applied Scientist with domain expertise in Personalization, Information Retrieval, and Recommender Systems — or strong general ML fundamentals — to develop new algorithms and end-to-end solutions. As part of our team of applied scientists and software development engineers, you will research, design, develop, and deploy algorithms into production pipelines. You'll work with state-of-the-art technologies in recommender systems and search, and tackle unique challenges like temporal information retrieval to improve real-time sports content recommendations. As a technologist, you will also drive the publication of original work in top-tier Machine Learning and Recommender Systems venues.

About The Team

We're the Sports Science team behind personalization for live sports on Prime Video. We build custom deep learning models that predict what each customer wants to watch across live and upcoming events -- powering relevance and ranking at scale for one of the most dynamic, real-time personalization problems at Amazon. Our work spans the full stack: engineering, Transformer-based architectures, calibration, and low-latency serving in production. We own our models end to end, from research to deployment. If you're excited about applied science that ships and reaches millions of customers, come build with us.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in building models for business application
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
• Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field
  
  

• Experience in professional software development
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or related field