Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Spotify is a leading audio streaming service, known for its innovative features like Discover Weekly. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design and implement advanced machine learning systems that enhance user interaction through conversational AI and personalized recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship production-grade machine learning systems powering conversational and agentic AI experiences
- Build systems that interpret user intent, manage context across multi-turn interactions, and handle ambiguity reliably at scale
- Develop and evolve agentic workflows including memory, context management, and multi-step tool orchestration
- Create evaluation frameworks, including LLM-as-judge pipelines, to measure quality and guide iteration
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and design to deliver seamless, user-facing experiences
- Balance experimentation with production rigor, ensuring performance, latency, and reliability at Spotify scale
- Continuously improve agent behavior through tight feedback loops between evaluation and real-world usage
Skills
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping machine learning systems in production environments
- Experienced with large language models and have worked on real-world applications beyond experimentation; shipped and maintained large scale systems with LLMs
- Deep understanding of challenges in conversational or agentic systems, such as context handling and multi-step reasoning
- Know how to evaluate ML systems rigorously and have experience designing metrics or evaluation pipelines
- Comfortable debugging complex interactions between models, tools, and system constraints like latency
- Care about building reliable, scalable systems that deliver high-quality user experiences
- Enjoy working cross-functionally and contributing to a collaborative, inclusive team environment
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
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