Engineering
Machine Learning
Spotify is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join our Creator Studio engineering organization, within the Music Mission. In Creator Studio, we build consumer and industry-facing products which provide creators new avenues for promoting their work, reaching new audiences, and deepening their connections with fans. If you’re interested in building out the next revolution in the music industry and helping artists succeed in their careers, come join us!
Location
New York or Remote Americas
Job type
Permanent
As an ML engineer on this team, you will tackle complex problems surrounding audience segmentation, targeting optimization, and forecasting budgets and inventory. You will build data-driven solutions to bring promotional music experiences to our 350+ million active users on behalf of millions of artists, using a diverse range of datasets including user behaviors, contextual data, and other signals across our broad range of mobile and connected platforms. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music and the way creators connect to their fans!
What you'll do
- Design and develop offline evaluation tools to enable faster experimentation of different promotion strategies
- Design, develop, and ship models to predict user behaviors and engagement with promotional content
- Develop data-driven and ML based solutions to optimize campaign performance via targeting, pacing, and other levers
- Be part of an active group of machine learning practitioners across Spotify
Who you are
- You have a strong background in statistics and machine learning, with experience in designing, building, and testing models
- You have hands-on experience implementing production machine learning systems at scale
- You preferably have experience with data pipeline tools like Apache Beam and cloud platforms like GCP or AWS
- You care about agile processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
Where you'll be
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode best for them!
- Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location.
- Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
- Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Spotify On Tour, join your colleagues on trips to industry festivals and events.
Learn about life at Spotify
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 381 million users.
Global COVID and Vaccination Disclosure
Spotify is committed to safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For the US, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols.
This role is not eligible for hire in Colorado, USA.