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# Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Platform at Spotify

- **Company:** Spotify
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-04-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/499543e3-78e7-473a-8a1d-a82ce9ce9030

## Job description

We design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify. The Content Platform team powers the full lifecycle of content across music, podcasts, audiobooks, and emerging formats at Spotify. We ensure that everything from licensed catalog to user-generated content is understood, trusted, safe, and high quality for millions of listeners worldwide. Our systems are responsible for how content is ingested, understood, enriched, governed, and distributed across the platform. As the scale and diversity of content continue to grow—driven by advances in AI, new creation tools, and emerging content formats—we’re investing in intelligent systems that can understand, evaluate, manage, and route content reliably at global scale. We’re hiring Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineers to build and scale foundational ML systems that power content understanding, safety, policy enforcement, and decisioning across Spotify. Depending on your experience and interests, you may focus on areas ranging from multimodal content understanding and platform-level ML systems to safety, risk detection, policy enforcement, and compliance. You’ll help shape the architecture and technical strategy behind how Spotify understands and makes decisions about content at global scale. This work is foundational to delivering safe, high-quality experiences for listeners and creators while enabling new ways for people to interact with content across Spotify.

## What You'll Do

- Define and drive machine learning strategy across content understanding, safety, policy enforcement, and platform-level decisioning
- Build and scale production ML systems for classification, moderation, ranking, risk detection, and content evaluation
- Develop automated decisioning systems that support content quality, integrity, safety, and policy compliance at scale
- Design and deploy ML systems across multiple content modalities, including text, audio, image, and video
- Build systems capable of evaluating and making decisions about content in real time and at Spotify scale
- Enable controlled and reliable access to content and metadata for downstream products and applications
- Collaborate closely with Product, Policy, Trust & Safety, and Engineering teams to translate content standards into scalable technical solutions
- Advance automation while maintaining high standards for quality, safety, fairness, explainability, and reliability
- Provide technical leadership across teams, mentoring engineers and influencing ML engineering, evaluation, and system design best practices

## Who You Are

- You have significant experience designing and building production-grade machine learning systems at scale
- You have deep experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or similar
- You have experience with—or a strong interest in—multimodal machine learning across areas such as text, audio, image, or video
- You have built systems where machine learning outputs inform or automate real-world decisions
- You understand how to balance automation with quality, safety, reliability, and user experience
- You’re comfortable tackling complex and ambiguous technical problems with significant product and business impact
- You think in systems, connecting models, data, infrastructure, and decisioning to platform-level outcomes and user experiences
- You care deeply about data quality, rigorous evaluation, fairness, explainability, and system reliability
- You’re an experienced technical leader who communicates clearly, mentors others, and can influence across technical and non-technical teams

Where You Will Be

- This role is based in London or Stockholm

- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

## About Spotify

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service, connecting users to over 100 million tracks, 7 million podcast titles, and 700,000 audiobooks across 184 markets.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: SPOT)
- **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Audio streaming and digital media
- Target customers: B2C (consumers via Free and Premium tiers) and B2B (advertisers, artists, and labels through Spotify Advertising and Spotify for Artists)
- Mission: "To deliver creativity to the world—one note, one voice, one idea at a time."

## Products & Services
- **Spotify Free**: Ad-supported streaming of music, podcasts, and audiobooks
- **Spotify Premium**: Subscription tier with offline mode, improved sound quality, and ad-free listening
- **Spotify for Artists**: Analytics, promotion, and monetization tools for creators
- **Spotify Advertising**: Programmatic and self-serve ad platform for brands
- **Audiobooks**: Catalog of 700,000+ audiobook titles (market entry in 2022)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in available sources; stock price reported at USD 391.23 (as of 2024-10-29)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue EUR 17.2B; 777 million monthly users including 300 million subscribers (per Spotify Newsroom). Note: LinkedIn company data lists 365M users/165M subscribers — conflicting reports, likely reflecting an older snapshot.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series A of USD 21.6M with 5 investors (2008); debt financing of USD 1.0B (2016); convertible notes in 2016 and 2021. Key acquisitions include Sonantic (2022), Mediachain (2017), and Tunigo (2013).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew +14.2% YoY to 8,921 employees; 9 offices across 4 countries; expansion into audiobooks; 300M+ paying subscribers.

## Competitive Advantages
- Scale: largest audio streaming subscriber base globally
- Data and AI personalization: mature recommendation engines and AI-driven discovery
- Multi-format audio ecosystem: music, podcasts, and audiobooks in a single app
- Strong brand recognition and deep creator relationships

## Strategic Focus
- AI-powered personalization and generative audio tools
- Audiobook market expansion
- Podcast ecosystem growth
- Creator monetization and artist tools

## Why Work Here
- Employer rating 4.0/5.0 from 2,155 reviews (Work-Life: 4.2, Compensation: 3.9, Culture: 4.0, Career: 3.5)
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