Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Music Understanding

Spotify

New York City, USremote country$184k-$263k/yrPosted Apr 29, 2026
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At a glance

Highlights

  • personalization team
  • millions of users
  • equity included
  • comprehensive benefits

Why this role might suit you

The position lets an engineer shape global music recommendation experiences at scale, applying advanced machine-learning techniques to a product used by hundreds of millions of listeners.

Skills

machine-learningmusic-understanding

About the role

The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Blend to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them. You’ll join a team working at the intersection of machine learning, music understanding, and user experience. We focus on generating music sessions powering experiences like systems that power conversational playlist generation to give users more adaptive and intuitive control over what they listen to. This team collaborates closely with product, design, user research, and data science to build personalized, high-impact features used by hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide.

The United States base range for this position is $184,050 $262,928 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.

Compensation

This Machine Learning Engineer role pays $184k-$263k/yr. Within typical range for machine learning engineer roles in United States.

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