Senior Research Engineer - Music

2 hours, 36 minutes 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

  • Collaborate with research scientists on music generation research using diffusion, flow matching, autoregressive, and related models.
  • Work on adjacent areas including ML-based audio processing, music information retrieval, machine learning, and signal processing.
  • Improve model training pipelines, including debugging distributed training and optimizing data loading at massive scale.
  • Profile and accelerate training and inference code to improve experiment speed and production responsiveness.
  • Integrate models into production environments with platform and product teams for Spotify’s large user base.
  • Translate state-of-the-art research into robust, well-engineered prototypes.
  • Maintain a high-quality, well-structured, and well-tested codebase shared across a distributed team.
  • Build internal tooling, libraries, and workflows that improve experimentation, debugging, and deployment for researchers.

Requirements

  • Experience training or fine-tuning large machine learning models on GPUs using PyTorch or similar frameworks.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure.
  • Ability to debug problems in machine learning training code.
  • Strong communication skills for working with global teams both synchronously and asynchronously.
  • Experience optimizing code for performance and improving GPU training efficiency.
  • Ability to learn new concepts and technologies quickly in a fast-moving ML and AI environment.
  • Resourceful, proactive approach to solving blockers through research, experimentation, and collaboration.
  • Familiarity with low-level debugging tools such as lldb or NVIDIA Nsight is a plus.
  • Solid grasp of computer science concepts such as type systems, compilers, parallelism, thread safety, and encapsulation.
  • Interest in audio processing and music information retrieval.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $176,166 to $251,666 per year plus equity.
  • Health insurance coverage.
  • Six months of paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Monthly meal allowance.
  • 23 paid days off.
  • 13 paid flexible holidays.
  • Remote work flexibility within the North Americas region, with collaboration aligned to Eastern Standard Time.

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