Machine Learning Engineer - Artist-First AI Music Lab

1 month ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Spotify

Spotify

Spotify is a leading global audio streaming service empowering artists and inspiring fans worldwide with over 70 million tracks. It has 365 million users, including 165 million subscribers, across 178 markets.

Media
Founded 2006

Description

  • Design, build, evaluate, and improve machine learning training and inference pipelines for AI-driven music experiences.
  • Apply machine learning and prompt engineering across complex ML pipelines that support large language model-based user experiences.
  • Create evaluation frameworks, including LLM-as-judge pipelines, to measure model quality and accelerate feedback loops.
  • Partner with music subject-matter experts to develop training and reference data through synthetic generation, expert curation, and taxonomy design.
  • Build scalable systems that balance experimentation speed with production rigor, reliability, and low latency at Spotify scale.
  • Collaborate with Data Science teams to connect evaluation frameworks to real-world usage signals and improve model quality.
  • Contribute to technical direction and engineering best practices across deployment, observability, experimentation, and production infrastructure.
  • Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, design, and music industry partners to shape new listening experiences for artists and fans.

Requirements

  • Experience applying machine learning in production environments.
  • Hands-on experience with large language models, prompt engineering, evaluation systems, and shipping LLM-driven features in production.
  • Experience building and maintaining production ML systems using Python, Java, Scala, or similar languages.
  • Experience building large-scale data pipelines for sourcing, preparing, and evaluating training data.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, Azure, or similar infrastructure environments.
  • Ability to explain machine learning concepts, assumptions, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience building user-facing products and strong judgment around conversational AI and generative user experiences.
  • Strong focus on experimentation, iteration, and data-driven product and engineering decisions.
  • Ability to thrive in collaborative, cross-functional teams that move quickly and learn continuously.
  • Location flexibility to work within the Eastern United States region, with collaboration in the EST time zone.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $138,250 to $197,500 plus equity.
  • Health insurance.
  • Six months of 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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