Spotify27d ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Music Understanding

United States·New YorkRemotePermanentsenior

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Overview

The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Blend to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else.

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You’ll join a team working at the intersection of machine learning, music understanding, and user experience. We focus on generating music sessions powering experiences like systems that power conversational playlist generation to give users more adaptive and intuitive control over what they listen to.

This team collaborates closely with product, design, user research, and data science to build personalized, high-impact features used by hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide.

Design, build, evaluate, and ship LLM-based solutions that give users more adaptive control over their listening experience

Work on prompted playlist experiences with a focus on music fulfillment and session generation

Collaborate with cross-functional partners across user research, design, data science, product, and engineering

Prototype new ML approaches and bring them into production at global scale

Build and improve systems that connect artists and fans in personalized and meaningful ways

Contribute to the development of scalable ML systems serving hundreds of millions of users

Promote best practices in ML system design, testing, evaluation, and deployment across the organization

Actively contribute to a strong community of machine learning practitioners at Spotify

You are experienced in machine learning and enjoy solving complex real-world problems in collaborative environments

You have a strong background in machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI

You are comfortable applying theory to build real-world, production-ready applications

You have hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML systems at scale

You are familiar with LLM-based systems and techniques for improving them using human feedback such as reinforcement fine-tuning, DPO, or similar approaches

You have experience designing modular ML architectures and writing technical specifications in partnership with product teams

You are experienced with large-scale distributed data processing tools such as Apache Beam or Apache Spark

You have worked with cloud platforms like GCP or AWS

This role is based in New York

We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

The United States base range for this position is $184,050 $262,928 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

New York, United States

Remote within one country

Who can apply

Open to applicants worldwide

Listing Details

Posted: April 29, 2026
First seen: April 29, 2026
Last seen: May 25, 2026

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Days active: 26
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Scored at: May 25, 2026

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