Applied Science Manager, Prime Video - Content Localization, Understanding & Enrichment
Core
Lead a team of scientists and engineers to build systems that analyze video content (characters, scenes, dialogue, events) to enable content moderation, metadata generation, and ad placement on Prime Video.
Role type
Senior Applied Science Manager (Video Understanding & Search)
Builds
Production systems for content intelligence, search, and metadata generation at the scale of Prime Video's catalog
Domain
Streaming entertainment, Computer Vision, NLP, Information Retrieval
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Applied research, ML/NLP/IR/Analytics, Java/C++/Python, team leadership, strategy definition, end-to-end delivery, metrics tracking
Preferred skills
Deep learning, complex software systems, customer-facing delivery
Technologies
Java, C++, Python
Responsibilities
Define technical direction and roadmap for understanding and search workstreams; lead and grow a high-performing team of scientists and engineers; partner with product teams to shape outputs for downstream products; own delivery from research to production launch; define and track success metrics; manage ambiguity and prioritize trade-offs
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
