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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Music Understanding

New York, NYRemote
Summary

Designs and deploys LLM-based ML systems for personalized music recommendations, playlist generation, and session experiences at Spotify scale. Requires expertise in ML, NLP, generative AI, and large-scale data processing tools.

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, evaluate, and ship LLM-based solutions that give users more adaptive control over their listening experience
  • Work on prompted playlist experiences with a focus on music fulfillment and session generation
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners across user research, design, data science, product, and engineering
  • Prototype new ML approaches and bring them into production at global scale
  • Build and improve systems that connect artists and fans in personalized and meaningful ways
  • Contribute to the development of scalable ML systems serving hundreds of millions of users
  • Promote best practices in ML system design, testing, evaluation, and deployment across the organization
  • Actively contribute to a strong community of machine learning practitioners at Spotify

Who You Are

  • Experienced in machine learning and enjoy solving complex real-world problems in collaborative environments
  • Strong background in machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI
  • Comfortable applying theory to build real-world, production-ready applications
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML systems at scale
  • Familiar with LLM-based systems and techniques for improving them using human feedback such as reinforcement fine-tuning, DPO, or similar approaches
  • Experience designing modular ML architectures and writing technical specifications in partnership with product teams
  • Experienced with large-scale distributed data processing tools such as Apache Beam or Apache Spark
  • Worked with cloud platforms like GCP or AWS
Skills
Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingGenerative AILLMsReinforcement LearningDPOApache BeamApache SparkGoogle CloudAWS