Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Music Understanding

What You'll Do

• 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

Who You Are

• 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

Where You'll Be

• 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.