5 hours ago
London, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Lead multi-week ML initiatives end to end, from translating business requirements into technical specifications to shipping models and measuring subscriber impact.
- Own components of ML systems and make independent technical trade-offs while keeping them observable, reliable, and well documented.
- Prototype and productionize machine learning solutions at scale for hundreds of millions of active users.
- Build and maintain production ML systems, data pipelines, and model development workflows.
- Drive optimization, testing, and tooling improvements while partnering with product, design, user research, data science, and engineering teams.
- Communicate technical reasoning, unblock teammates, share context, and contribute to team velocity.
Requirements
- Experience building and shipping production machine learning systems.
- Strong background in machine learning theory and practice, including the ability to explain ML concepts and assumptions.
- Ability to own well-scoped ML projects end to end and make sound technical decisions independently.
- Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining production ML systems in Python, Scala, or similar languages, including model development with PyTorch.
- Experience building data pipelines and independently obtaining data needed to build and evaluate models.
- Clear communication with stakeholders and ability to explain technical choices.
- Preferred experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
- Interest in agile software processes, data development, reliability, focused experimentation, and driving business impact.
Benefits
- Flexible work location within the EMEA region, subject to an available work location.
- Collaboration aligned with Central European and GMT time zones.
- Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation support throughout the recruitment process.
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About Spotify
Spotify builds a global audio streaming platform for listeners and creators, offering on-demand music and podcasts across mobile, desktop, and connected devices. The business runs a freemium model: an ad-supported free tier and a paid Premium subscription, plus creator tools like Spotify for Artists and podcast publishing. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Stockholm, it is a publicly traded company on the NYSE (SPOT) serving consumers and rights holders worldwide.