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Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports—all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. U.S. Prime members 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 in 25 countries around the world enjoy access to Amazon’s enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast delivery.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We’ll 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 a Senior Data Scientist at Amazon Prime Video, you will work with massive customer datasets, provide guidance to product teams on metrics of success, and influence feature launch decisions through statistical analysis of the outcomes of A/B experiments. You will develop machine learning models to facilitate understanding of customer's streaming behavior and build predictive models to inform personalization and ranking systems. You will work closely other scientists, economists and engineers to research new ways to improve operational efficiency of deployed models and metrics.

A successful candidate will have a strong proven expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning, and experiment design, along with a solid practical understanding of strength and weakness of various scientific approaches. They have excellent communication skills, and can effectively communicate complex technical concepts with a range of technical and non-technical audience. They will be agile and capable of adapting to a fast-paced environment. They have an excellent track-record on delivering impactful projects, simplifying their approaches where necessary. A successful data scientist will own end-to-end team goals, operates with autonomy and strive to meet key deliverables in a timely manner, and with high quality.

About the team

Prime Video discovery science is a central team which defines customer and business success metrics, models, heuristics and econometric frameworks. The team develops, owns and operates a suite of data science and machine learning models that feed into online systems that are responsible for personalization and search relevance. The team is responsible for Prime Video’s experimentation practice and continuously innovates and upskills teams across the organization on science best practices. The team values diversity, collaboration and learning, and is excited to welcome a new member whose passion and creativity will help the team continue innovating and enhancing customer experience.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
  • 5+ years of data scientist experience
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience in data applications using large scale distributed systems (e.g., EMR, Spark, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Pig, and Hive)
  • Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team
  • 3+ years of experience with machine learning, statistical modeling, experiment design, data analysis tools and techniques and understanding the key parameters that affect their performance

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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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