Machine Learning Engineer II, Amazon Music MusicIQ

We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join the MusicIQ team and drive the design and evolution of scalable high-performance machine learning this role you will work at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems data pipelines and applied ML/AI building platforms that power content intelligence and catalog serving at Amazon scale.

You will partner closely with Applied Scientists Product Managers and partner engineering teams to deliver systems that are reliable cost-efficient and optimized for both offline processing and real-time customer experiences. Your work will focus on improving system scalability data quality and operational efficiency while enabling faster iteration and integration of AI-driven capabilities across the catalog ecosystem.

Key job responsibilities
- Enhance core ML infrastructure for tagging music content and improve music similarity capabilities.

- Partner with research scientists to deploy scalable ML models to production improving model performance and architecture.

- Investigate design approaches prototype new technologies and evaluate their technical feasibility (e.g. AutoML real-time ML serving systems).

- Collaborate with scientists to design and build data pipelines for processing massive datasets and scaling machine learning models.

- Develop and maintain platforms and services for building evaluating and deploying machine learning models used in real-world applications.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually