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.

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Founded 2006

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Personalization

2 weeks, 6 days ago

North America

Full-time

Senior

Machine Learning Engineer

Software Development

Agile Apache Spark AWS GCP Generative AI Hugging Face Java LLM Machine Learning Python PyTorch Scala Statistics Transformers

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Spotify

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Founded 2006

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Description

Design, develop, evaluate, and iterate on recommendation models, including candidate generation, ranking, and embedding models.
Improve reward signals and recommendation quality across Home, Now Playing, and other core music surfaces.
Contribute to the adoption of generative recommendation models in partnership with ML and AI infrastructure teams.
Promote best practices in ML systems development, testing, and experimentation within the team.
Collaborate with Data Science, Product, and Design partners to define success metrics and run A/B experiments.
Translate experiment and product insights into improvements for recommendation systems.
Partner with teams across Personalization to integrate and test new signals in recommendation models.
Work on music recommendation systems at scale, including shelf and candidate generation and ranking models.

Requirements

Strong background in machine learning with expertise in statistics and optimization.
Experience with sequential models, transformers, generative AI, and LLMs.
Hands-on experience building and shipping production machine learning systems at scale, ideally in personalization or recommendation systems.
Experience implementing ML systems in Java, Scala, Python, or similar languages.
Familiarity with PyTorch, Ray, or Hugging Face is a plus.
Experience with large-scale distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Beam, Apache Spark, or Scio.
Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
Experience collaborating across teams on complex ML projects and working with cross-functional stakeholders.
Comfort with agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and disciplined experimentation.

Benefits

Base salary range of $210,000 - $260,000 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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