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Spotify

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization

New York, NY · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026

About the job

Build and improve machine learning systems for Spotify Search to personalize results and help listeners discover content.

What you'll do

  • Develop and optimize search ranking, retrieval, and personalization models from experimentation through production.
  • Explore AI and agentic approaches for conversational Search experiences.
  • Evaluate models and experiments, and collaborate across disciplines to improve listener experience and scalable Search infrastructure.

What they ask for

  • Experience building, deploying, and improving production machine learning systems.
  • Strong understanding of machine learning for information retrieval, search ranking, recommendation systems, or personalization.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with large-scale datasets and scalable systems.
  • Experience designing and evaluating experiments and interpreting model performance.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with modern machine learning frameworks and data processing tools.
  • Curiosity about large language models and agentic systems.

Tools

Python

AI focus

Develop machine learning for personalized Search and explore emerging AI, large language models, and agentic approaches for intuitive, conversational discovery experiences.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)