Job Summary:
Spotify is a leading audio streaming platform that aims to enhance the listening experience through personalized recommendations. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join their Personalization team, focusing on developing AI and ML techniques to improve music, podcast, and audiobook recommendations for millions of users.
Responsibilities:
• Utilize in-house and 3rd party LLMs to solve language understanding problems
• Employ techniques such as fine-tuning and RAG to improve models
• Contribute to designing, building, evaluating, shipping, and refining Spotify’s product by hands-on ML development
• Help drive optimization, testing, and tooling to improve quality of our content enrichment assets
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of MLEs, data and backend engineers, and other stakeholders including tech research, data science, and product to develop new features and technologies
• Be a participant in our AI Foundation’s ML community and work collaboratively and efficiently within our existing platforms and systems Perform data analysis to establish baselines and inform product decisions
• Stay up-to-date on the latest machine learning algorithms and techniques
Qualifications:
Required:
• You have a strong background in machine learning, especially experience with Large Language Models
• You have professional experience in applied machine learning
• Extensive experience working in a product and data-driven environment (Python, Scala, Java, SQL, with Python experience required) and cloud platforms (GCP or AWS)
• You have some hands-on experience implementing or prototyping machine learning systems at scale
• You have experience architecting data pipelines and are self-sufficient in getting the data you need to build and evaluate models, using tools like Dataflow, Apache Beam, or Spark
• You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and disciplined experimentation
• You have experience and passion for fostering collaborative teams
• Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and/or other scalable Machine learning frameworks. Experience with Ray or TFX is a plus
Preferred:
• Bonus if you have experience with architecting near real time pipelines
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.