Responsibilities

• As a highly experienced science leader in speech and audio processing, you will apply state-of-the-art research in automatic speech recognition, voice synthesis, speech translation, and prosody modeling to make content sound great in every language, powering features like Dialogue Boost, AI-Assisted Dubbing, and Automated Audio Descriptions.
• You will lead the research direction for a team of deeply talented applied scientists working at the intersection of speech AI and accessibility, defining roadmaps that advance our capabilities in dialogue enhancement, hybrid AI-human dubbing pipelines, and dialect adaptation at scale.
• You will communicate these roadmaps effectively to senior leadership, connecting technical breakthroughs to customer impact.
• The Prime Video - Content Reasoning, Enrichment & Localization Team's mission is to deeply understand all content and empower all customers with relevant language options, innovative accessibility assists, and rich title-information across all their content-experiences on Prime Video. We create and publish content on-time that's meaningful, accurate, and accessible to every customer globally. We delight our customers by pushing the boundaries of content understanding and enrichment. Through inclusion and innovation, we do the most fulfilling work of our career.

Requirements

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience developing and implementing deep learning algorithms, particularly with respect to computer vision algorithms

Preferred

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development
• Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Benefits

• Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parential leave