Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Spotify is a leading music and audio streaming platform delivering personalized experiences to millions of users worldwide.
$187,000 - $267,000
Machine Learning
Staff Software Engineer
Hybrid
7+ years of experience

Description For Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Spotify, the world's leading music and audio streaming platform, is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join their Content Understanding teams. This role is a unique opportunity to shape the future of text understanding and Large Language Models (LLMs) at Spotify, directly impacting millions of users worldwide.

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, leading a small team in building and maintaining cutting-edge text understanding tools. Your expertise in LLMs, including training, fine-tuning, and deployment, will be crucial in developing solutions for transcription, moderation, entity extraction, topic modeling, and summarization.

This position offers an exciting blend of technical leadership and strategic thinking. You'll collaborate closely with Product and Engineering leadership to craft the vision for Spotify's text understanding capabilities. Your role will involve staying ahead of the curve in LLM developments, introducing groundbreaking use cases, and translating business needs into impactful engineering solutions.

Spotify offers a flexible work environment, allowing you to work from either the Eastern US region or London, UK. The company provides an attractive compensation package, including a base salary range of $187,000 - $267,000, plus equity, comprehensive health benefits, and generous paid time off.

If you're passionate about machine learning, have a strong background in NLP and LLMs, and want to make a significant impact on how millions of people experience music and audio content, this role at Spotify could be your perfect next step. Join a team that values innovation, collaboration, and user-centric thinking, and help shape the future of audio technology.

Last updated 4 months ago

Responsibilities For Staff Machine Learning Engineer

  • Be the technical lead for a small team of engineers building and maintaining text understanding tools
  • Craft and deliver solutions involving Large Language Models
  • Team up with Product and Engineering leadership to shape the future vision for text understanding tooling
  • Conduct research and analysis of the latest industry trends in LLM developments
  • Collaborate with partners to develop analytics and metrics for text understanding systems
  • Be a leading voice in the machine learning community across Spotify
  • Contribute to team-wide product ideation

Requirements For Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Python
Java
Scala
  • Experience in text understanding and natural language processing solutions
  • Expertise with training, fine-tuning, deploying, and maintaining LLMs
  • Familiarity with various fine-tuning techniques in the LLM domain
  • Extensive experience in a product and data-driven environment
  • Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS)
  • Understanding of storage solutions
  • Experience architecting data pipelines
  • Good understanding of MLOps and the model lifecycle
  • Familiarity with industry trends
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience and passion for mentoring
  • Experience in cultivating a strong engineering culture

Benefits For Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Medical Insurance
401k
Parental Leave
  • Health insurance
  • Six month paid parental leave
  • 401(K) retirement plan
  • 23 paid days off
  • 13 paid flexible holidays
  • Paid sick leave

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