2026 Summer Internship, Research Scientist - PhD (New York City)

Spotify•New York, NY

1d•$60•Onsite

About The Position

Spotify is looking for enthusiastic students/recent graduates with a passion for audiobooks, podcasts or music and an ambition to go far. This isn't just any internship! Our paid internship program will give you the chance to gain in-depth knowledge of what it's like to be a Spotify employee as well as get the opportunity to see the technology side of a fast growing company! Our summer internships will last for approximately 10 or 12 weeks this summer and start in the middle of June. We are looking for exceptional Research Scientist interns who have applied experience in AI, LLMs, machine learning, natural language processing, audio and video analysis, network science, computational social science, knowledge extraction or related fields. Our research labs are based in the US East Coast and London, and this internship will be based in the New York office. We develop novel and rigorous approaches to understand audiovisual content, including music, podcasts, audiobooks and videos, to enable Spotify teams to deliver safe, enjoyable, and inspiring listening experiences.

Requirements

You are pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related areas with a strong computational focus.
You have a graduation year date of 2026 or 2027.
You currently have valid work authorization to work in the country in which this role is based that will extend from June to September 2026.
You are available from June 15th onwards for a 10 or 12 week summer internship.
You have publications in communities such as the ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, RecSys, KDD, SIGIR, ICWSM, AAAI, IC2S2 or related venues.
You are a creative problem-solver who is passionate about digging into complex problems and devising innovative ways to reach results.
You have experience with the complexities of modeling and analyzing large scale real-world data.

Responsibilities

Join an interdisciplinary team passionate about making every user and creator interaction with Spotify outstanding, and, in the process, pushing innovation and contributing to the wider research community.
Apply your scientific knowledge to application-oriented problems in AI, machine learning, knowledge extraction and representation, computational social science, online safety, spoken audio and video understanding, natural language processing; use and fine-tune large language models.
Combine insights from your expertise with those of our diverse team of research scientists.
Help to develop thoughtful, efficient, and intuitive new ways to understand, search, explore, moderate and discover audio and video content.
Present your results in internal forums and if appropriate and relevant, prepare a paper for publication.