Principal Research Scientist - Music

2 hours, 12 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Data Science and Analytics
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

  • Conduct research in music generation using diffusion, flow matching, autoregressive, and related modeling approaches.
  • Explore related areas including ML-based audio processing, music information retrieval, machine learning, and signal processing.
  • Run large-scale experiments using Spotify’s infrastructure and access to a large user base.
  • Build practical applications that apply generative technologies to listening experiences.
  • Collaborate with scientists, engineers, product managers, designers, user researchers, and analysts on cross-functional projects.
  • Influence Spotify’s products, tools, and services through research-driven work.
  • Publish research findings, give talks, and participate in top academic conferences.

Requirements

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Industry experience is helpful.
  • Experience in generative modeling, machine learning, music information retrieval, speech processing, audio processing, signal processing, probabilistic modeling, computer vision, or related areas.
  • Publications in venues such as ICASSP, ISMIR, INTERSPEECH, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, or related conferences.
  • Strong coding skills in Python, PyTorch, and NumPy.
  • Ability to explain complex topics clearly and build strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
  • Passion for building products that add value at scale and interest in turning research ideas into production systems.
  • Availability to work within the North Americas region, with collaboration aligned to Eastern Standard Time and core hours of CET 3pm-6pm / EST 9am-12pm.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $252,318 to $360,454 in the United States.
  • Equity eligibility.
  • Health insurance.
  • Six months of paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Monthly meal allowance.
  • 23 paid days off.
  • 13 paid flexible holidays.

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