# Senior Research Scientist

**Company**: Spotify
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $164,231 - $234,615
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Research Scientist to join our Artist-First AI Music lab. Our team pioneers and advances state-of-the-art generative technologies for music that create breakthrough experiences for fans and artists.

The role involves conducting groundbreaking research in music generation, running large-scale experiments, creating practical applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and engaging with the broader research community.

Responsibilities:

- Conduct research in music generation using diffusion, flow matching, or autoregressive models

- Run large-scale experiments with access to Spotify's extensive infrastructure

- Create practical applications that harness generative technologies

- Collaborate with scientists, engineers, product managers, designers, user researchers, and analysts

- Publish findings, deliver talks, and attend top conferences

Requirements:

- Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field

- Experience in generative modeling, machine learning, music information retrieval, speech processing, audio processing, signal processing, probabilistic modeling, computer vision, or related areas

- Publications in top conferences such as ICASSP, ISMIR, INTERSPEECH, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV

- Strong coding skills in Python, PyTorch, NumPy

- Creative problem-solving skills and passion for building outstanding products

Location:

- Flexible work location within the North Americas region

- Core working hours are CET 3pm-6pm / EST 9am-12pm

Benefits:

- Health insurance

- Six-month paid parental leave

- 401(k) retirement plan

- Monthly meal allowance

- 23 paid days off

- 13 paid flexible holidays

Salary:

- $164,231 - $234,615 plus equity

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- PyTorch
- NumPy
- generative modeling
- machine learning
- music information retrieval

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