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Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
66 days ago
Salary
$227.5K - $325.0K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Spotify
• contribute to designing, scaling/building, evaluating, integrating, shipping, and refining reward signals for recommendations by hands-on ML development • promote and role-model best practices of ML systems development, testing, evaluation • lead collaborations and align across PZN to integrate and A/B test mid-term signals in various recommendation systems
Job Requirements
- strong background in machine learning
- expertise in statistics and optimization, especially in sequential models, transformers, generative AI and large language models
- hands-on experience with large cross-collaborative machine learning projects
- hands-on experience implementing production machine learning systems at scale in Java, Scala, Python, or similar languages
- experience with PyTorch, Ray, Hugging Face and related tools
- experience with large scale, distributed data processing frameworks/tools like Apache Beam, Apache Spark
- cloud platforms like GCP or AWS
- care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and disciplined experimentation
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
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