Spotify · 18 hours ago
2026 Summer Internship, Research Scientist - PhD (New York City)
New York, NY
Internship
Hybrid
Intern
$60/hr - $60/hr
Start in 2026 SummerSpotify is looking for enthusiastic students and recent graduates for their summer internship program, specifically for the role of Research Scientist Intern. The internship will provide the opportunity to work on applied problems in AI and machine learning, contributing to the understanding of audiovisual content.
AudioCloud ComputingMusicMusic StreamingPodcast
Responsibilities
Join an interdisciplinary team passionate about making every user and creator interaction with Spotify outstanding, and, in the process, pushing innovation and contributing to the wider research community
Apply your scientific knowledge to application-oriented problems in AI, machine learning, knowledge extraction and representation, computational social science, online safety, spoken audio and video understanding, natural language processing; use and fine-tune large language models
Combine insights from your expertise with those of our diverse team of research scientists
Help to develop thoughtful, efficient, and intuitive new ways to understand, search, explore, moderate and discover audio and video content
Present your results in internal forums and if appropriate and relevant, prepare a paper for publication
Qualification
Required
You are pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related areas with a strong computational focus
You have 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
You have publications in communities such as the ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, RecSys, KDD, SIGIR, ICWSM, AAAI, IC2S2 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 large scale 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
H1B Sponsorship
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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
Recent News
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