Spotify
Spotify

Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Intelligence

$227,495 – $324,993 per year

TLDR

Build and scale foundational machine learning systems for content understanding across diverse media, enhancing safety and quality for millions of listeners and creators.

What You Will Do
  • Build and scale machine learning systems that generate deep understanding of content across modalities

  • Develop models for classification, tagging, semantic understanding, and content enrichment

  • Create high quality content enrichment at scale using LLMs and agentic systems.

  • Design systems that make content intelligence signals available to downstream teams and products

  • Improve automation for content quality, safety, and metadata enrichment at scale

  • Collaborate with product, policy, and engineering teams to translate content intelligence into user impact

  • Contribute to evaluation frameworks, data pipelines, and annotation systems

  • Support rapid experimentation to prototype and launch new types of content signals

  • Help improve system reliability, scalability, and performance across large datasets

  • Who You Are
  • You have experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production

  • You are comfortable working with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar

  • You have experience working with large datasets and care about data quality and evaluation

  • You are interested in or have worked with multimodal machine learning

  • You understand how to design systems that balance automation with quality and user experience

  • You are comfortable working on complex problems with evolving requirements

  • You think in systems and understand how models connect to product outcomes

  • You communicate clearly and work well across technical and non-technical teams

  • Where You Will Be
  • This role is based in New York, NY

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
  • The United States base range for this position is 227,495–324,993 USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

    Benefits

    Equity Compensation

    plus equity

    Health Insurance

    The benefits available for this position include health insurance

    Monthly meal allowance

    Paid Parental Leave

    six-month paid parental leave

    Paid Time Off

    23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave

    Spotify is an audio streaming platform that delivers an extensive catalog of music, podcasts, and audiobooks, catering to hundreds of millions of users globally. It empowers artists by providing them with the means to monetize their creativity while offering fans unparalleled access to a diverse array of content, all driven by a passion for sound.

    Founded
    Founded 2006
    Employees
    500+ employees
    Industry
    Media
    Total raised
    $2.6B raised
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