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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Surfaces Moments

Machine Learning EngineerMachine Learning EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 5,001-10,000Since 2008H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

New York

Posted

2 days ago

Salary

$184.1K - $262.9K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAirflowBigQueryCloudPythonPyTorch

Job Description

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Surfaces Moments

Spotify

• Own and improve the machine learning models and systems that power the Home feed, including the Shortcuts experience. • Design, build, and ship personalized recommendations that serve millions of Spotify listeners globally. • Build content recommendation systems for emerging agentic and AI-powered user experiences. • Train, fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize large language models using techniques such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT), distillation, and parameter-efficient training approaches. • Partner closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and designers to define and execute experimentation strategies. • Drive A/B testing, monitoring, model evaluation, and continuous optimization of recommendation quality, reliability, and cost efficiency. • Improve ML platform capabilities, data pipelines, and production systems that support personalization at Spotify scale.

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments
  • deep expertise in recommendation systems, ranking models, personalization, or large-scale content discovery platforms
  • strong proficiency in Python and hands-on experience building machine learning systems with PyTorch
  • experienced with large language model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and optimization techniques including SFT, distillation, and LoRA
  • worked with large-scale inference systems and understand the challenges of latency, reliability, and cost optimization
  • care deeply about creating high-quality user experiences through thoughtful application of machine learning
  • communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences and enjoy working in highly collaborative environments
  • know how to design, execute, and interpret online experiments and A/B tests to improve user outcomes
  • experienced building and maintaining data pipelines and orchestration workflows using technologies such as Flyte, Airflow, BigQuery, and cloud-based storage platforms

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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