Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Personalization

Spotify

Senior Machine Learning Engineer developing innovative audio experiences at Spotify. Collaborating across teams to enhance listening through AI and machine learning.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $184,050 - $262,928 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheAWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformSpark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, evaluate, and ship agentic based features and interactive experiences to bring our products to the next level
Collaborate with cross functional teams spanning user research, design, data science, product management, and engineering to build new product features that advance our mission to connect artists and fans in personalized and useful ways
Prototype new approaches and productionize solutions at scale for our hundreds of millions of active users
Promote and role-model best practices of ML systems development, testing, evaluation both inside the team as well as throughout the organization
Actively contributed to a strong community of machine learning practitioners at Spotify

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong background in machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI, with experience in applying theory to develop real-world applications
Hands-on expertise with implementing end-to-end production ML systems at scale. Experience with production LLM scale based systems is a plus
Experience with incorporating human feedback to improve LLM based systems using technicals like DPO, KTO, and reinforcement fine-tuning
Experience with designing end-to-end tech specs and modular architectures for ML frameworks in complex problem spaces in collaboration with product teams
Experience with large scale, distributed data processing frameworks/tools like Apache Beam, Apache Spark, and cloud platforms like GCP or AWS

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningnatural language processinggenerative AIend-to-end production ML systemsproduction LLM systemsDPOKTOreinforcement fine-tuningtech specs designmodular architectures

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunity contributionbest practices promotion