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)
🏢 Amazon
📍 Bengaluru