Job Summary:
Spotify is a leading music and podcast streaming service, and they are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join their Personalization team. This role involves designing and implementing machine learning features that enhance user experience and engagement through personalized recommendations and innovative audio interactions.
Responsibilities:
• Design, build, evaluate, and ship agentic based features and interactive experiences to bring our products to the next level
• Collaborate with cross functional teams spanning user research, design, data science, product management, and engineering to build new product features that advance our mission to connect artists and fans in personalized and useful ways
• Prototype new approaches and productionize solutions at scale for our hundreds of millions of active users
• Promote and role-model best practices of ML systems development, testing, evaluation both inside the team as well as throughout the organization
• Actively contributed to a strong community of machine learning practitioners at Spotify
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong background in machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI, with experience in applying theory to develop real-world applications
• Hands-on expertise with implementing end-to-end production ML systems at scale. Experience with production LLM scale based systems is a plus
• Experience with incorporating human feedback to improve LLM based systems using technicals like DPO, KTO, and reinforcement fine-tuning
• Experience with designing end-to-end tech specs and modular architectures for ML frameworks in complex problem spaces in collaboration with product teams
• Experience with large scale, distributed data processing frameworks/tools like Apache Beam, Apache Spark, and cloud platforms like GCP or AWS
Company:
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in Stockholm, SWE, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.