Spotify
Research Scientist - Personalization
$133K–$190K
New York, NY · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Education
- Master’s or PhD in machine learning, AI, or a related field, or equivalent research experience.
About the job
Conducts machine learning and AI research to advance Spotify’s personalization systems and inform long-term product direction.
What you'll do
- Develop and evaluate research methods, models, and experiments for personalization.
- Share research through publications, talks, and conference participation, and collaborate on product opportunities.
- Help shape the research agenda and mentor others.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated machine learning and AI expertise through peer-reviewed publications at conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, KDD, or RecSys.
- Deep machine learning knowledge, with hands-on experience in areas such as post-training and reinforcement learning for large models, reward design, distributed training, or model-behavior evaluation.
- Experience designing experiments and using real-world datasets to validate research ideas.
Pay
$133,194 - $190,278 USD base salary
Tools
machine learning, AI, large-scale foundation models, generative AI, reinforcement learning
AI focus
Original research in foundation models, generative AI, post-training, and reinforcement learning to improve personalization.
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