Base Salary
$184k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and improve the machine learning models and systems powering Spotify’s Home feed and Shortcuts experience.
- Design, build, and ship personalized recommendations for millions of listeners globally.
- Build content recommendation systems for agentic and AI-powered user experiences.
- Train, fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize large language models.
- Partner with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and designers on experimentation strategies.
- Drive A/B testing, monitoring, model evaluation, and continuous optimization of recommendation quality, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Improve ML platform capabilities, data pipelines, and production systems supporting personalization at Spotify scale.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments.
- Deep expertise in recommendation systems, ranking models, personalization, or large-scale content discovery platforms.
- Strong proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch.
- Experience training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and optimizing large language models using SFT, distillation, and LoRA.
- Experience with large-scale inference systems, including latency, reliability, and cost optimization.
- Ability to design, execute, and interpret online experiments and A/B tests.
- Experience operating distributed machine learning workloads with Ray, FSDP, HSDP, or similar frameworks.
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and orchestration workflows with Flyte, Airflow, BigQuery, and cloud-based storage platforms.
- Effective communication across technical and non-technical audiences and comfort working collaboratively.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Six months of paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Flexible work location within the North Americas region where Spotify has a work location
- Eastern Standard time zone collaboration
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About Spotify
Deliver creativity to the world -- one note, one voice, one idea at a time. At Spotify, we focus relentlessly on building the best and most valuable experience available anywhere, enhancing every moment by connecting the world to the art and the creatives who shape it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.