Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization

Spotify; New York (NY); Remote; USD 138,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative audio streaming service is seeking a technical leader to enhance its personalization capabilities. You will leverage your expertise in machine learning and recommender systems to architect and deploy models that serve personalized podcast recommendations. As part of a collaborative team, you'll drive technical projects and mentor fellow engineers, contributing to a product that reaches millions globally. This role offers the flexibility to work from anywhere in North America, ensuring you can thrive in your preferred environment while making a significant impact on the future of audio content.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

Monthly Meal Allowance

Paid Days Off

Paid Flexible Holidays

Paid Sick Leave

Qualifications

• Experience as a technical leader or mentor.
• Strong background in machine learning and recommender systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical projects and facilitate collaboration across teams.
• Architect and deploy ML models for podcast recommendations.

Skills

Machine Learning

Recommender Systems

Feature Engineering

Data Pipelines

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Kubeflow

Ray

Tools

spotify-kubeflow

Scio

Job description

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.”

Hulk stands for Human Understandable Language Knowledge. The team owns critical assets that power recommendation and distribution across Spotify. We are part of the LLM Foundations Product Area, and we heavily use modern AI techniques and LLMs to derive the best possible understanding of content and set up reliable and scalable systems for distributing that knowledge across partner Spotify teams

What You'll Do

• Be a technical leader within the team you work with and within Spotify in general
• Coordinate technical projects across teams within Spotify
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems for delivering various media worldwide
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
• Architect, design, develop, and deploy ML models that will serve podcast recommendations across the Home, Podcast Subfeed, and NPV surfaces.
• Be a leader in Home’s ML community and work collaboratively and efficiently within Home’s existing platforms and systems.

Who You Are

• You have experience being a technical leader or mentor
• You have a strong background in machine learning, especially experience with recommender systems.
• You have experience in designing and building ML systems at Spotify (including experience in spotify-kubeflow and salem)
• You are experienced with feature engineering and building scalable data pipelines in Scio.
• You have a deep understanding of ML systems and infrastructure.
• You have experience in Tensorflow or PyTorch. Experience with Kubeflow, Ray is a plus.

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North America region as long as we have a work location.
• This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.

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

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

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.