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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization

1 month ago
North America, United States
Full-time
Lead
Machine Learning Engineer
Software Development
Apache Airflow GCP LLM Machine Learning Python PyTorch
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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.

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Founded 2006
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Description

  • Own and improve the machine learning models and systems that power the Home feed, including the Shortcuts experience.
  • Design, build, and ship personalized recommendations for millions of Spotify listeners globally.
  • Build content recommendation systems for emerging agentic and AI-powered user experiences.
  • Train, fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize large language models using methods such as supervised fine-tuning, distillation, and parameter-efficient training.
  • Partner with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and designers to define and execute experimentation strategies.
  • Drive A/B testing, monitoring, model evaluation, and continuous optimization of recommendation quality, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Improve ML platform capabilities, data pipelines, and production systems that support personalization at Spotify scale.
  • Drive technical direction in ambiguous problem spaces and contribute to the long-term architecture of personalization systems.
  • Mentor and support other machine learning engineers to raise the team’s overall bar.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments.
  • Deep expertise in recommendation systems, ranking models, personalization, or large-scale content discovery platforms.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and hands-on experience building machine learning systems with PyTorch.
  • Experience with large language model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and optimization techniques including SFT, distillation, and LoRA.
  • Experience with large-scale inference systems and an understanding of latency, reliability, and cost optimization.
  • Ability to design, execute, and interpret online experiments and A/B tests to improve user outcomes.
  • Experience operating distributed machine learning workloads using technologies such as Ray, FSDP, HSDP, or similar frameworks.
  • Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and orchestration workflows using technologies such as Flyte, Airflow, BigQuery, and cloud-based storage platforms.
  • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences, with influence beyond the immediate team.
  • North America work location required, with collaboration in Eastern Standard Time.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $227,495 to $324,993 in the United States.
  • Equity in addition to base compensation.
  • Health insurance.
  • Six months of paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Monthly meal allowance.
  • 23 paid days off.
  • 13 paid flexible holidays plus paid sick leave.
  • Flexible work location within North America, with remote flexibility where available.

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