Machine Learning Engineer - Personalization Team

The Personalization team at Spotify makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. You will join a team working at the intersection of machine learning, music understanding, and user experience, focusing on generating music sessions powering experiences like conversational playlist generation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, evaluate, and ship LLM-based solutions that give users more adaptive control over their listening experience
• Work on prompted playlist experiences with a focus on music fulfillment and session generation
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across user research, design, data science, product, and engineering
• Prototype new ML approaches and bring them into production at global scale
• Build and improve systems that connect artists and fans in personalized and meaningful ways
• Contribute to the development of scalable ML systems serving hundreds of millions of users
• Promote best practices in ML system design, testing, evaluation, and deployment across the organization
• Actively contribute to a strong community of machine learning practitioners at Spotify

Requirements

• Experienced in machine learning and enjoy solving complex real-world problems in collaborative environments
• Strong background in machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI
• Comfortable applying theory to build real-world, production-ready applications
• Hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML systems at scale
• Familiar with LLM-based systems and techniques for improving them using human feedback
• Experience designing modular ML architectures and writing technical specifications in partnership with product teams
• Experienced with large-scale distributed data processing tools such as Apache Beam or Apache Spark
• Have worked with cloud platforms like GCP or AWS

Location and Benefits

• Based in New York with flexibility to work from home
• The United States base range for this position is $184,050 - $262,928 plus equity
• Benefits include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave