Spotify · 1 month ago
2026 Summer Internship, Research Scientist - PhD (New York City)
New York, NY
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$55/hr - $55/hr
Start in 2026 SummerSpotify is looking for enthusiastic students/recent graduates for a summer internship in research science. The role involves applying scientific knowledge to problems in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and economics while collaborating with a diverse team to enhance user interaction with Spotify.
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Responsibilities
Be part of an interdisciplinary team focused on making every user interaction with Spotify amazing through personalization and discovery, and in the process pushing innovation and contributing to the wider research community by publishing papers
Apply your scientific knowledge to application-oriented problems in artificial intelligence, economics, machine learning, search and recommendation, speech processing, and natural language processing, combining insights from your expertise with those of our diverse team of research scientists
Be a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional team working in collaboration with other scientists, engineers, product managers, designers, user researchers, and analysts across Spotify to design creative solutions to challenging problems
Help to develop thoughtful, efficient, and intuitive new ways to search, explore and discover music, podcasts, and audiobooks
Qualification
Required
You are pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Information Science, Economics, Statistics, or related areas with a strong computational focus
Strong preference for a graduation year date of 2026 or 2027
You currently have valid work authorization to work in the country in which this role is based that will extend from June to September 2026
You are available from June 15th onwards for a 10 or 12 week summer internship
Preferred
You have publications in communities such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EC, AAAI, RecSys, The Web Conference, ACL, SIGIR, WSDM, KDD, Interspeech, or related venues
You are a creative problem-solver who is passionate about digging into complex problems and devising innovative ways to reach results
You have experience with the complexities of modeling and analyzing real-world data
Benefits
Paid Public Holidays
Learning and Development Trainings
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
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$2.09BKey Investors
ValueAct CapitalManhattan Venture Partners (MVP)Goldman Sachs Investment Partners
2023-02-10Post Ipo Equity
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2018-04-03IPO
Leadership Team
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Co-CEO
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Chairman & CEO
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