Spotify

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Platform

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5 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Shape the machine learning strategy for content understanding and platform-level decisioning.
  • Build and scale machine learning systems for classification, moderation, ranking, and risk detection across multimodal content.
  • Develop automated decisioning systems supporting content quality, integrity, and policy compliance at scale.
  • Design and deploy models across text, audio, image, and video domains.
  • Build reliable systems providing controlled access to content and metadata for downstream applications.
  • Collaborate with product, policy, and trust and safety teams to operationalize content standards.
  • Improve automation to reduce manual intervention while maintaining trust and quality.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to best practices in machine learning engineering, evaluation, and system design.

Requirements

  • Strong experience building production-grade machine learning systems at scale.
  • Experience with modern machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
  • Experience with or interest in multimodal machine learning.
  • Ability to design systems balancing automation with quality, safety, and user experience.
  • Ability to work on complex, ambiguous, high-impact problems and connect models to platform outcomes.
  • Care for data quality, evaluation rigor, and system reliability.
  • Clear communication and ability to 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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