Spotify
Senior Applied Research Scientist - Personalization
$169K–$242K
New York, NY · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Education
- PhD degree on top of professional experience
About the job
Develop generative speech models and research methods for Spotify’s personalization products, helping improve speech quality and bring proven ideas into scalable production.
What you'll do
- Develop and experiment with methods for speech synthesis, speech recognition, and end-to-end speech models.
- Collaborate with engineering and data teams to improve research and production pipelines and turn validated ideas into scalable products.
- Expand speech use cases across markets and products, and share research best practices with the team.
What they ask for
- PhD degree on top of professional experience, with a strong background in ML.
- Experience developing generative models for speech, audio/music, natural language processing, or computer vision.
- Strong experience with Python, particularly PyTorch.
- Experience conducting high-quality research in an academic or professional setting.
Pay
$169,157 - $241,653 USD base salary
Tools
transformers, GANs, diffusion models, flow matching, VAEs, audio codecs, Python, PyTorch
AI focus
Research and develop generative conversational speech-to-speech models, including speech synthesis and recognition, with a focus on quality, understanding, realism, and production scalability.
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