Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Rewards

Spotify

Senior Machine Learning Engineer developing AI capabilities for Spotify's Personalization team. Working on systems that enhance user interaction with audio through intelligent recommendations.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $184,050 - $262,928 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

contribute to designing, scaling/building, evaluating, integrating, shipping, and refining reward signals for recommendations
lead collaborations and align across PZN to integrate and A/B test mid-term signals
promote best practices of ML systems development throughout the organization
responsible for ML development, prototyping models, building pipelines, productizing/scaling models, and launching A/B tests

Requirements

What you’ll need

strong background in machine learning
experience in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for recommendations
expertise in statistics and optimization
experience with sequential models, transformers, generative AI, LLMs (large language models are a plus)

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 learningReinforcement Learningstatisticsoptimizationsequential modelstransformersgenerative AIlarge language modelsmodel prototypingA/B testing

Soft Skills

collaborationalignmentbest practices promotion