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 adfree podcasts included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited ondemand 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 Alexaenabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans artists and creators on a global scale.
Key job responsibilities
Work backwards from customer problems to develop novel machine learning solutions for music and podcast recommendations. Through A/B testing and online experiments youll implement and validate your ideas and solutions.
Advocate solutions and communicate results insights and recommendations to stakeholders and partners.
Collaborate closely with applied scientists on machine learning tasks ranging from ML code & data management to experimentation training and deployment of ML models.
Own the development and operationalization of solutions deployed in production.
Collaborate with partner engineering teams to operationalize and scale training improvements across experimentation and production workloads.
A day in the life
Lead innovation in ML to shape Amazon Music experiences for millions. Collaborate with talented engineers and scientists to guide research and build
Lead innovation in ML to shape Amazon Music experiences for millions. Collaborate with talented engineers and scientists to guide research and build scalable models across our audio portfolio music audiobooks podcasts live streaming and more. Drive experiments and rapid prototyping leveraging Amazons data at scale. Innovate daily alongside worldclass teams to delight customers worldwide through personalization.
About the team
The team is responsible for models that underly all of Amazon Musics recommendations across content types and algorithmic stations on mobile web and Alexa. PRISM also owns data pipelines that generate training data and features and an approximate nearest neighbor service.
As a Machine Learning Engineer on the team you will collaborate with product managers applied scientists and engineers to deliver meaningful recommendations personalized for each of the millions of customers using Amazon Music globally. You will be involved in every aspect of the development lifecycle from idea generation to development and deployment of advanced models.
3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with machine learning libraries and deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow PyTorch etc.)
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.