Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Spotify is the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, seeking to unlock the potential of human creativity. The Personalization team is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design and enhance interactive listening experiences using machine learning and AI technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, evaluate, and ship an 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

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 production LLM scale based systems is a plus
• 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