Data Scientist, Amazon
Amazon Music Machine Learning/Personalization, FTC
The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Love collaborating with a wide range of internal and external partners to drive successful partnerships? If so, come and build the future of music and audio with us
- Experience programming or scripting language like Python, Java, C or C++
- Experience in building models for business application
- Experience with data scripting languages (e.g., SQL, Python, R, or equivalent) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R, SAS, Matlab, or equivalent)
- Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build
Desirable
- Experience working effectively with science, data processing, and software engineering teams
- Experience in professional software development
What the job involves
- Please note this is a fixed term contract until July 2026
- Transform how people enjoy music, audiobooks & podcasts with personalized recommendations as our Applied Scientist in Berlin
- Support the design, development & deployment of data-driven models that recommend the right content at the right time based on customer context & behaviour
- Leverage audio data, metadata & listening patterns to create innovative features that personalize the Amazon Music experience
- Collaborate with engineers and business teams to ensure coherent personalization across Amazon Music, from conception to production
- You will make listening magical again through the power of personalization!
- Create Innovative ML Solutions for Customized Musical Joy. Through A/B testing and online experiments done hand-in-hand with engineering teams, you'll implement and validate your ideas and solutions
- Chart the Course to Musical Discovery. Seek new directions to guide Amazon Music's quest to match each customer with their perfect playlists
- Lead innovation to shape Amazon Music experiences
- Collaborate with talented engineers and scientists to guide research and build scalable models across our audio portfolio - music, podcasts, live streaming, and more
- Drive experiments and rapid prototyping, leveraging Amazon's data at scale
- Innovate to delight customers worldwide through personalization
- Bring music to life through machine learning! Our Berlin teams breathe passion into Amazon Music, optimizing each recommendation for our customers' unique tastes. Scale your work across music apps, web player and Alexa devices, fine-tuning the algorithms behind our recommendation and personalization features
- Collaborate with global teams to create the future of musical engagement, one stream at a time. Help us surprise and delight Amazon Music fans with an ever-better listening experience. Join our mission to personalize music through machine learning!
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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