Base Salary
$227k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the machine learning engineering strategy for Discovery Mode and related royalty programs.
- Design, build, evaluate, ship, and refine production machine learning systems at scale.
- Provide technical leadership and make architectural and engineering decisions across complex ML initiatives.
- Prototype new approaches and convert successful ideas into reliable, scalable product capabilities.
- Drive experimentation, optimization, testing, and tooling to improve ML system quality, reliability, and effectiveness.
- Collaborate with engineering, product management, data science, research, design, user research, Music Tech Research, and Personalization teams.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical knowledge sharing and engineering practices.
Requirements
- Deep experience with machine learning algorithms, modeling approaches, evaluation, and experimentation.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing production machine learning systems at scale.
- Proficiency with languages such as Python, Java, Scala, or similar.
- Ability to set technical direction for complex ML problems while contributing directly to implementation and delivery.
- Experience leading technically complex projects from idea through production and balancing near- and long-term priorities.
- Ability to evaluate trade-offs, navigate ambiguity, communicate technical decisions and risks, and build alignment with technical and cross-functional partners.
- Commitment to reliable software, data-informed development, disciplined experimentation, and collaborative teamwork.
Benefits
- Flexible work location within North America where Spotify has a work location.
- Team collaboration operates within the Eastern time zone.
- Health insurance.
- Six-month paid parental leave.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Monthly meal allowance.
- 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave.
- Equity is offered in addition to base salary.
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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.