Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Spotify
Enrichment & Content Intelligence
$184-262.9k
Offers equity
Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$184-262.9k
Offers equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- You have solid experience building, deploying, and maintaining machine learning systems in production at scale
- You have strong experience training, evaluating, and operating ML models using modern frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
- You have experience working with multimodal machine learning systems across audio, computer vision, text embeddings, or related domains
- You understand entity resolution, deduplication, record linkage, or large-scale matching problems, ideally across multiple content modalities
- You know how to design evaluation systems that balance model quality, operational performance, and real-world impact
- You are experienced working with large-scale distributed data processing systems and ML infrastructure
- You communicate effectively across engineering, product, and data science stakeholders
- You are comfortable leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction within a team
- Experience with Scio, Dataflow, Flyte, BigQuery, or similar distributed processing frameworks is a plus
- Experience with Scala is a plus
- Experience with computer vision, video understanding, multimodal embeddings, or recommendation systems is a strong plus
What the job involves
- The Experience team designs Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration
- Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world
- That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day
- If it touches a consumer, we shape it
- We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify
- The Enrichment & Content Intelligence team sits within Content Platform in the Experience Mission
- We build the metadata-resolution and content-enrichment infrastructure that powers how Spotify understands music and video content at global scale
- Our systems help answer foundational questions across the platform: which tracks are the same recording, which music videos match which audio tracks, who wrote and performed a song, and how content relationships connect across Spotify’s catalog
- Our infrastructure powers products and experiences used by millions of listeners, artists, and creators every day
- From recommendations and charts to royalties and artist tooling, the work we do directly shapes how content is understood and surfaced across Spotify
- We’re looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help evolve the machine learning systems behind Recording Groups, Music Video Resolution, SongDNA, and the Music Knowledge Graph
- This role sits at the intersection of multimodal machine learning, entity resolution, and production-scale engineering, with opportunities to work across audio, video, and metadata understanding problems at massive scale
- Own and evolve large-scale ML pipelines powering Spotify’s content-resolution systems
- Lead development of multimodal embedding frameworks supporting multimodal understanding, music video matching, SongDNA
- Improve entity-resolution systems across music and video content, helping Spotify better understand relationships between recordings, versions, and content formats
- Design and run experiments to improve precision, recall, and overall content-quality outcomes using offline evaluation, golden datasets, A/B testing, and impact analysis
- Build scalable ML evaluation and monitoring infrastructure, including standardized datasets, retraining workflows, and continuous improvement systems
- Contribute to the evolution of the Music Knowledge Graph by improving production ML capabilities, observability, and model lifecycle management
- Partner closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and engineering teams across Content Platform and the wider Experience Mission
- Help shape technical strategy for the squad and contribute to long-term ML direction across the product area
- Mentor engineers and contribute to a strong culture of technical collaboration and experimentation
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
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