Spotify · 15 hours ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$176K/yr - $252K/yrSpotify is the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, and they are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join their Personalization team. This role involves designing and refining ML models to enhance user satisfaction and recommendation systems for millions of users.
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Responsibilities
Contribute to designing, scaling/building, evaluating, integrating, shipping, and refining ML models for the personalization of the main homepage
Lead collaborations and align across PZN to integrate and A/B test mid-term signals in various recommendation systems
Promote and role-model best practices of ML systems development, testing, evaluation, etc., both inside the team as well as throughout the organization
Qualification
Required
You have a strong background in machine learning, enjoy applying theory to develop real-world applications, with expertise in statistics and optimization, especially in sequential models, transformer architecture models, and fine-tuning processes for sequential models
You have hands-on experience with large cross-collaborative machine learning projects and managing stakeholders
You have hands-on experience implementing production machine learning systems at scale in Java, Scala, Python, or similar languages
You have some experience with large scale, distributed data processing frameworks/tools like Apache Beam, Apache Spark, or even our open source API for it - Scio, and cloud platforms like GCP or AWS
You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and disciplined experimentation
Preferred
Experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, etc. is a strong plus
Benefits
Health insurance
Six month paid parental leave
401(k) retirement plan
Monthly meal allowance
23 paid days off
13 paid flexible holidays
Paid sick leave
Company
Spotify
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists.
Founded in 2006
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.09BKey Investors
ValueAct CapitalManhattan Venture Partners (MVP)Goldman Sachs Investment Partners
2023-02-10Post Ipo Equity
2021-02-25Post Ipo Debt
2018-04-03IPO
Leadership Team
Alex Norstrom
Co-CEO
Daniel Ek
Chairman & CEO
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