Research Scientist
Personalization

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• Engineering

• Machine Learning

Locations

• London
• Stockholm

Job type

Permanent

What You'll Do

• Participate in groundbreaking research in machine learning.
• Apply your scientific knowledge to analyze and collect data, perform analyses, identify problems, devise solutions and construct methodologies, including metrics and standard processes, and conduct experiments to validate these.
• Work on practical applications such as recommendation, search, voice and language understanding, and areas related to music and talk audio.
• Work in collaboration with other scientists, engineers, product managers, designers, user researchers, and analysts across Spotify to craft creative solutions to challenging problems.
• You'll have product impact, while working on and further developing a long-term research roadmap.
• You will maintain a research profile through external engagement such as publishing, giving talks, and being an active community member at top conferences.

Who You Are

• You have a PhD or are currently enrolled in a PhD program in machine learning or related area.
• You have solid understanding in machine learning, recommender systems and generative AI.
• Publications at top machine learning conferences or journals such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, Recsys, SIGIR or related.
• Proven hands-on skills in sourcing, cleaning, manipulating, analyzing, visualizing and modeling of real data.
• A passion for making sense of user behavior, especially talk and music content, using the best available methods.
• You're a creative problem-solver who is passionate about digging into complex problems and devising new approaches to reach results.

Where You'll Be

• You'll be based in London or Stockholm.

Our global benefits

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

Learn about life at Spotify

You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 500 million users.