Applied Scientist II, Amazon Music

Amazon is hiring an Applied Scientist II, Amazon Music in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

Builds AI ●●●● is how Level rates this applied scientist role: the job is building AI systems.
Tools and skills the posting cites include Python, Java and C.
Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
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AI in this role

Design, train, and deploy machine learning models and algorithms for Amazon Music products.

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Are you passionate about applying machine learning and data-driven techniques to solve real-world problems at global scale? Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist who combines curiosity, creativity, and strong analytical skills to build models and algorithms that power customer experiences and business decisions.

As an Applied Scientist II, you will work with senior scientists and engineers to design, train, and deploy ML models using large-scale datasets. You will experiment with modern techniques in supervised and unsupervised learning, natural language processing, computer vision, or optimization—depending on the team’s focus area. You’ll also have opportunities to learn Amazon’s scalable infrastructure, experiment platforms, and science best practices.

This role is ideal for someone early in their career who enjoys working in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams and is excited by the opportunity to learn, innovate, and deliver measurable impact to customers.

Key job responsibilities
1.Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product managers to define and frame business problems as ML or optimization tasks.
2.Build, train, and evaluate models using large, complex datasets.
3.Implement scalable data pipelines and model-serving systems.
4.Analyze experimental results, draw insights, and refine models to improve accuracy and robustness.
5.Communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
6.Continuously learn and apply new algorithms and techniques to improve existing systems.

Basic qualifications

- 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 in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred qualifications

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development

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How we rate this

Applied Scientist II, Amazon Music at Amazon rates 90 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Applied Scientist II, Amazon Music is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The role is based in IN, KA, Bengaluru.
The job was posted on September 15, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Computer visionNLPMachine learningDeep learningAlgorithmsData SciencePythonJava

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Deep learning LLM Generative AI Reinforcement learning TensorFlow Spark

Pay

Typical applied scientist job: $169k

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Questions you could be asked

Walk me through a computer vision problem you solved, from raw data to a deployed model.
What NLP problem have you worked on, and how did you measure whether it actually worked?
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Tell me about a project where deep learning was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where algorithms was part of your work. What did you do?

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