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Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Intelligence

Builds and scales ML systems for content understanding across audio, video, text, and images at Spotify. Develops models for classification, tagging, semantic analysis, and enrichment using LLMs, enabling automation, quality, and new product features.

New York, NYML EngineeringHybrid

About the role

What You Will Do

  • Build and scale machine learning systems that generate deep understanding of content across modalities
  • Develop models for classification, tagging, semantic understanding, and content enrichment
  • Create high quality content enrichment at scale using LLMs and agentic systems
  • Design systems that make content intelligence signals available to downstream teams and products
  • Improve automation for content quality, safety, and metadata enrichment at scale
  • Collaborate with product, policy, and engineering teams to translate content intelligence into user impact
  • Contribute to evaluation frameworks, data pipelines, and annotation systems
  • Support rapid experimentation to prototype and launch new types of content signals
  • Help improve system reliability, scalability, and performance across large datasets

Who You Are

  • Experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production
  • Comfortable working with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar
  • Experience working with large datasets and care about data quality and evaluation
  • Interested in or have worked with multimodal machine learning
  • Understand how to design systems that balance automation with quality and user experience
  • Comfortable working on complex problems with evolving requirements
  • Think in systems and understand how models connect to product outcomes
  • Communicate clearly and work well across technical and non-technical teams

Skills

PyTorchTensorFlowMachine LearningLLMsMultimodal Machine LearningData Pipelines

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