Amazon.com Services LLC

Technology

Sr.AppliedScientist,AmazonMusic

$100–226k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Music at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: GenAI, Multimodal AI, Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems. Propose modeling approaches. Drive experimentation”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver measurable customer impact; Improve music discovery; Improve personalization; Improve customer experience; Grow engagement

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Complex music intelligence problems; Personalization problems; Metadata quality problems; Content understanding problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience, 5+ years of building machine learning models, Experience programming in Java, C++, Python, Domain expertise in Recommender Systems, Search or Ranking

Nice to Have

PhD, Experience with Catalog Metadata, Experience with behavioral segmentation at scale, Experience with real-time ML systems, Experience working with large-scale customer data platforms, Experience with data lake architectures, Publication track record in top AI/ML Conferences

What You'll Do.

Propose modeling approaches

Drive experimentation

Balance scientific rigor with execution speed

Identify opportunities to transform music understanding

Identify opportunities to transform music curation

Identify opportunities to transform music engagement

Drive adoption of new techniques

Support long-term product goals

Support long-term CX goals

Mentor applied scientists

Contribute to science community

Contribute to ML community

Produce technical documentation

Outline methodologies

Outline design decisions

Outline experiment results

Outline customer impact

Invent AI/ML solutions

Scale AI/ML solutions

Drive design of ML systems

Drive design of ML platforms

Contribute core technical innovation

Provide organization-wide architectural guidance

Define science vision

Define science roadmap

Translate customer needs into plans

Build scalable AI solutions

Launch scalable AI solutions

Lead data-driven evaluation

Measure customer impact

Optimize customer impact

Communicate scientific concepts

Foster culture of innovation

Foster culture of technical excellence

Foster culture of customer focus

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Engineers across Music Intelligence; Personalization; Search; Partner teams; Engineering teams; Product teams; Technical stakeholders; Business stakeholders; Senior leadership

Communication Scope

Technical documentation; Communicate complex scientific concepts

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Key job responsibilities As a Sr. Applied Scientist, you will - Help shape the scientific direction of the organization by proposing state of the art modeling approaches, driving experimentation, and balancing scientific rigor with execution speed to deliver measurable customer impact. - Think strategically about the future of GenAI and multimodal AI, identifying opportunities to transform music understanding, curation, and engagement. - Stay at the forefront of advancements in GenAI, recommendation systems, and large-scale machine learning, driving adoption of new techniques where they create meaningful customer value. - Collaborate closely with engineers across Music Intelligence, Personalization, Search and other partner teams to support long-term product and CX goals. - Mentor applied scientists and engineers while actively contributing to the broader science and ML community across Amazon Music. - Produce clear and concise technical documentation outlining methodologies, design decisions, trade-offs, experiment results, and customer impact. - Invent and scale innovative AI/ML solutions for complex music in

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