Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Location:

London or Stockholm

What You'll Do:

• Define and drive the ML technical strategy for Search, focusing on retrieval, ranking, and generative approaches.
• Build models that improve query understanding, personalization, and relevance across Spotify’s Search experiences.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional agile team spanning user research, design, data science, product management, and engineering.
• Prototype and productionize new modeling approaches at scale, serving hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
• Lead high-impact projects from ideation through deployment, setting best practices for ML development, testing, evaluation, and experimentation.

Who You Are:

• You have a strong background in machine learning and recommender systems, bridging research and user impact.
• You have hands-on experience training and operating transformer models in production, or strong interest in doing so.
• You have production experience developing large-scale ML systems in Java, Scala, Python, or similar languages. Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow is a strong plus.