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Spotify · 15 hours ago

2026 Summer Internship, Research Scientist - PhD (New York City)

New York, NY

Internship

Hybrid

Intern

$55/hr - $55/hr

Start in 2026 Summer

Spotify is looking for enthusiastic students/recent graduates for their paid summer internship program. The role involves working on research in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related fields, contributing to innovative solutions for user interactions with Spotify.

AudioCloud ComputingMusicMusic StreamingPodcast

Work & Life Balance

No H1B

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

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingEconomicsStatistical AnalysisResearch PublicationsData ModelingCreative Problem-Solving

Required

You are pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Information Science, Economics, Statistics, or related areas with a strong computational focus

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

Strong preference for a graduation year date of 2026 or 2027

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