Machine Learning Engineer I, Personalization , Minesweeper

The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next on Spotify easier and more enjoyable for every listener. We seek to understand the world of music, podcasts, and audiobooks better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual person and keep the world listening. Every day, hundreds of millions of people all over the world use the products we build which include destinations like “Home” and “Search” as well as original playlists such as “Discover Weekly” and “Daily Mix.”

Personalization’s Minesweeper squad produces Human Understandable Language Knowledge to enrich music and talk content understanding. We use AI and ML techniques, including Large Language Models, to understand music, podcasts and audiobooks, building reliable, scalable systems to distribute that knowledge to Spotify internal teams, users, and creators. We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join our team and help build the future of music, podcast and audiobook listening experiences for millions of listeners at Spotify. This is a unique opportunity to help develop and shape Spotify content enrichment, and recommendations. You’ll grow your skills in ML engineering at scale, work with a cross-functional team of Data Engineers, Backend Engineers, and researchers, and join a motivated and supportive team.

The United States base range for this position is $138,250- $197,500 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.

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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.