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.

The Amazon Music Search Science team is looking for an execution-focused Senior Applied Scientist to spearhead core scientific initiatives within our Bangalore hub. In this leadership-by-example role, you will define and execute the applied science roadmap for search and content discovery systems, directly impacting millions of customers worldwide.

You will operate at the exciting intersection of large-scale search infrastructure, applied machine learning, and foundation models. You will drive immediate, high-impact business deliverables in music search relevance, personalization, and retrieval performance, while simultaneously architecting the long-term technological vision that expands our search ecosystem toward deeper semantic intelligence, agentic workflows,



and cross-domain audio understanding.

Key job responsibilities
Strategic Roadmap & Architecture: Define and execute the technical and scientific roadmap for music search systems, making critical architectural decisions that balance short-term feature delivery with long-term scalability, maintainability, and extensibility.
Pioneering Applied Science: Lead the design and implementation of state-of-the-art machine learning solutions leveraging deep learning, LLMs, and agentic workflows to solve complex search, ranking, and intent-matching challenges.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with product management, engineering leaders, and peer teams to harmonize technical direction and deliver synchronized customer experiences.
Technical Excellence & Mentorship: Drive engineering and scientific excellence across the team by conducting rigorous design reviews, establishing modeling best practices

📌 Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Music Bengaluru
🏢 ADCI - Karnataka
📍 Bengaluru