[Remote] Machine Learning Engineer

About the Role

Note: This is a remote position open to candidates in the USA.

Spotify is a leading audio streaming service known for its innovative features like Blend and Discover Weekly. We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join the Personalization team, focusing on enhancing user satisfaction through advanced recommendation systems and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to designing, scaling/building, evaluating, integrating, shipping, and refining reward signals for recommendations by hands-on ML development.
• Lead collaborations and align across Personalization to integrate and A/B test mid-term signals in various recommendation systems.
• Promote and role-model best practices of ML systems development, testing, evaluation, etc., both inside the team as well as throughout the organization.

Skills

• Strong background in machine learning.
• Expertise in statistics and optimization, especially in sequential models, transformers, generative AI and large language models, and relevant fine-tuning processes.
• Hands-on experience with large cross-collaborative machine learning projects and managing stakeholders.
• 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.
• Some experience with large scale, distributed data processing frameworks/tools like Apache Beam, Apache Spark, or even our open source API for it - Scio.
• Experience with 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

Company Overview

Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. It was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, SWE, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.spotify.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Spotify has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 15 in 2026, 140 in 2025, 117 in 2024, 169 in 2023, 259 in 2022, 172 in 2021, 115 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.