Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Spotify • New York, NY

22h • Remote

About The Position

The Personalization (PZN) 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 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 Made For You, Discover Weekly and Daily Mix. The TurnTable team’s mission is to own and innovate on AI DJ and the interactive listening experiences. Using a mixture of LLMs and traditional ML, we strive to provide depth and connection for all listeners. We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join our team to build and improve our interactive listening experiences.

Requirements

• An experienced ML practitioner motivated to work on complex real-world problems in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
• 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 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

Nice To Haves

• Experience with production LLM scale based systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, evaluate, and ship and agentic based DJ solution that brings our DJ and interactive experiences 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, etc., both inside the team as well as throughout the organization
• Be part of an active group of machine learning practitioners

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees