Spotify

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Policy & Safety

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5 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive machine learning strategy for safety, policy enforcement, and compliance systems.
  • Build and scale machine learning systems for content detection, classification, and risk assessment.
  • Develop automated decisioning systems for consistent and reliable policy enforcement.
  • Design systems supporting real-time and large-scale content evaluation.
  • Collaborate with product, policy, and trust and safety teams to operationalize content standards.
  • Improve automation while maintaining high quality and safety standards.
  • Drive best practices in evaluation, fairness, and system reliability.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction across teams.

Requirements

  • Strong experience building production-grade machine learning systems at scale.
  • Experience with modern machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar.
  • Experience working on systems where machine learning outputs influence real-world decisions.
  • Ability to design systems that balance automation with safety and user experience.
  • Understanding of data quality, rigorous evaluation, system reliability, and platform-level outcomes.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and influence technical and non-technical teams.

Benefits

  • Role based in London or Stockholm.
  • Flexible work arrangement with some in-person meetings and the option to work from home.

Tech Stack

PyTorchTensorFlow

Categories

Spotify

About Spotify

10,000+ employees

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.

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