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Machine Learning Engineering Manager - Personalization

Leads engineering team building ML systems for safe personalization recommendations, search, and AI experiences at Spotify. Requires production ML deployment experience, generative AI, scalable backends, and cross-team collaboration.

New York, NYBoston, MAEngineering ManagementRemote

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and improve machine learning systems that power safety across personalization surfaces such as recommendations, search, and emerging AI experiences
  • Contribute to the platformization of safety systems, enabling scalable and reusable solutions across teams
  • Develop and operate high-throughput, low-latency backend services powered by ML models
  • Partner with Product, Trust & Safety, and Content Platform to translate safety needs into practical technical solutions
  • Work on both traditional ML models and generative AI systems, including integrating third-party and in-house foundational models
  • Contribute to evaluation frameworks, including labeling strategies, ground truth creation, and model validation approaches
  • Collaborate with foundational model teams to embed safety into LLM-based and agent-driven experiences
  • Use metrics and experimentation to continuously improve system performance, safety outcomes, and user experience

Who You Are

  • Experienced in building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments
  • Hands-on experience with both traditional ML approaches and newer generative AI techniques
  • Worked with scalable backend systems that require reliability, low latency, and high availability
  • Understand how to apply ML solutions to real-world product challenges, ideally in consumer-facing products
  • Experience with model evaluation approaches such as labeling workflows, red-teaming, or ground truth data generation
  • Comfortable working across disciplines, collaborating with product managers, researchers, and policy partners
  • Care deeply about building safe, responsible, and inclusive user experiences
  • Bring a thoughtful, metrics-driven approach to problem solving and decision-making

Skills

Machine LearningGenerative AILLMsBackend ServicesModel EvaluationKubernetesPythonTensorFlowPyTorchScalable Systems

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