1 month ago
Base Salary
$227k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and improve machine learning models and systems powering Spotify’s Home feed and Shortcuts experience.
- Design, build, and ship personalized podcast and content recommendation systems serving millions of listeners globally.
- Build recommendation systems for emerging agentic and AI-powered user experiences.
- Train, fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize large language models using SFT, distillation, and parameter-efficient training.
- 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.
- Improve ML platforms, data pipelines, orchestration workflows, and production systems supporting personalization.
- Set technical direction, contribute to long-term personalization architecture, and solve ambiguous technical problems.
- Mentor Machine Learning Engineers and strengthen engineering practices across the team.
Requirements
- Deep experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production.
- Deep experience with recommendation systems, ranking models, personalization, or large-scale content discovery platforms.
- Proficiency in Python and hands-on experience building machine learning systems with PyTorch.
- Experience training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and optimizing large language models, including SFT, distillation, and LoRA.
- Experience with large-scale inference systems and 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 using Flyte, Airflow, BigQuery, and cloud-based storage platforms.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions beyond the immediate team.
Benefits
- North America work location flexibility where Spotify has a work location.
- Collaboration within the Eastern Standard time zone.
- Health insurance.
- Six months of paid parental leave.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Monthly meal allowance.
- 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave.
- Equity is included in addition to base pay.
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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.