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Machine Learning Engineer - Personalization

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The Personalization (PZN) team makes deciding what to play next on Spotify easier and more enjoyable for every listener. We seek to understand the world of music, podcasts and audiobooks better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual and keep the world…

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The Personalization (PZN) team makes deciding what to play next on Spotify easier and more enjoyable for every listener. We seek to understand the world of music, podcasts and audiobooks better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual and keep the world listening. Every day, hundreds of millions of people all over the world use the products we build which include destinations like Home and Search as well as original playlists such as Made For You, Discover Weekly and Daily Mix.

Our team’s mission is to bring emerging search and agentic experiences to a mature state: exploring, defining, building, validating and optimizing new ideas. These can include new content types in our Search engine or emerging user interaction patterns.

  • Contribute to designing, scaling/building, evaluating, integrating, shipping, and refining reward signals for recommendations by hands-on ML development.

  • Lead collaborations and align across Personalization to integrate and A/B test mid-term signals in various recommendation systems.

  • Promote and role-model best practices of ML systems development, testing, evaluation, etc., both inside the team as well as throughout the organization.

  • You have a background in machine learning, enjoy applying theory to develop real-world applications, with experience in statistics and optimization, especially in sequential models, transformers, generative AI and large language models, and relevant fine-tuning processes.

  • You have hands-on experience with large cross-collaborative machine learning projects and managing stakeholders.

  • You have hands-on experience implementing production machine learning systems at scale in Java, Scala, Python, or similar languages.

  • You have some experience with large scale, distributed data processing frameworks/tools like Apache Beam, Apache Spark, or even our open source API for it - Scio, and cloud platforms like GCP or AWS.

  • You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and disciplined experimentation.

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North America region as long as we have a work location.

    This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.

    Location & Eligibility

    Where is the job
    New York, United States
    Remote within one country
    Who can apply
    US

    Listing Details

    Posted
    April 27, 2026
    First seen
    April 30, 2026
    Last seen
    May 14, 2026

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    13
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    0
    Trust Level
    44%
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    May 13, 2026

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    Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it.

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    SpotifyMachine Learning Engineer - Personalization