Senior Staff ML Engineer - Multimodal Content Platform

Software; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 281,000 - 402,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

Spotify seeks Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineers to design and scale foundational ML systems powering content understanding, safety, policy enforcement, and decisioning at global scale.

You will shape architecture and technical strategy to deliver safe, high‑quality experiences for listeners and creators, collaborating across Product, Policy, Trust & Safety, and Engineering teams. Remote‑flexible, NY‑based option available.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and building production‑grade ML systems at scale.
• Deep experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or similar.
• Strong interest in multimodal ML across text, audio, image, or video.
• Built systems where ML outputs inform or automate real‑world decisions.
• Ability to balance automation with quality, safety, reliability, and user experience.
• Think in systems, connecting models, data, infrastructure, and decisioning.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive ML strategy across content understanding, safety, policy enforcement, and platform‑level decisioning.
• Build and scale production ML systems for classification, moderation, ranking, risk detection, and content evaluation.
• Develop automated decisioning systems that support content quality, integrity, safety, and policy compliance at scale.
• Design and deploy ML systems across text, audio, image, and video modalities.
• Build systems capable of real‑time decisions at Spotify scale.
• Enable controlled access to content and metadata for downstream products.
• Collaborate with Product, Policy, Trust & Safety, and Engineering to translate standards into scalable solutions.
• Advance automation while ensuring quality, safety, fairness, explainability, and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership across teams, mentoring engineers.

Skills

Production-grade ML systems

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Multimodal ML

Technical leadership

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Job description

Spotify seeks Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineers to design and scale foundational ML systems powering content understanding, safety, policy enforcement, and decisioning at global scale.

You will shape architecture and technical strategy to deliver safe, high‑quality experiences for listeners and creators, collaborating across Product, Policy, Trust & Safety, and Engineering teams. Remote‑flexible, NY‑based option available.