Spotify
Consumer · Music streaming
- HQ
- Stockholm, SE
- Founded
- 2006
- Size
- 9,000+
- Funding
- Public (SPOT)
- Website
- spotify.com
Products
Spotify has 45 active AI-related job listings, with a significant focus on roles related to agents, comprising 42% of the openings, and application development, at 38%. The majority of these positions are within Engineering. The company is actively hiring for roles involving recommender systems, agent orchestration, and model serving. Over the last 30 days, Spotify has added 24 new AI roles, representing a 41% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Consumer · Music streaming
Currently tracking 37 active AI roles, down 58% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $110k–$402k (avg $223k).
Spotify currently has 27 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Research Scientist - Music (2), Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Content Intelligence (2), Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety (2), Senior Research Scientist - Music (2), Staff Engineer - Content Intelligence Infrastructure (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Spotify's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (37%), post-training (26%), application (19%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Spotify is hiring AI talent in: United States (15 roles), Sweden (11 roles), United Kingdom (10 roles), Canada (1 role).
Job postings at Spotify most frequently reference: model serving, multimodal, agent orchestration, recommender systems, fine tuning.
In the past 30 days, Spotify has posted 5 new AI-related roles. That is a -79% change versus the prior 30 days (24 → 5).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Research Scientist - Music Senior Research Scientist to join the Artist-First AI Music lab, focusing on pioneering and advancing state-of-the-art generative technologies for music. The role involves conducting research in music generation, ML-based audio processing, and related domains, running large-scale experiments, creating practical applications, and publishing findings. The goal is to invent new listening experiences that center artists and creatives, with a focus on fair compensation, artist-fan connection, and artist choice in participation. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Research Scientist - Music Research Scientist role focused on generative AI for music, involving research in music generation, audio processing, and related ML domains. The role will run large-scale experiments, create practical applications, and publish research findings. It requires a PhD and experience in generative modeling, ML, and audio processing, with strong coding skills in Python and PyTorch. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Senior Research Scientist - Music Senior Research Scientist to join the Artist-First AI Music lab, focusing on pioneering and advancing state-of-the-art generative technologies for music. The role involves conducting research in music generation models, running large-scale experiments, creating practical applications, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to impact Spotify's products. Requires a Ph.D. and experience in generative modeling, machine learning, and related fields, with a strong publication record. | Post-train | 9 |
| Research Scientist - Music Research Scientist role focused on pioneering and advancing state-of-the-art generative technologies for music, aiming to create breakthrough experiences for fans and artists. The role involves conducting research in music generation and related ML domains, running large-scale experiments, creating practical applications, and publishing findings. | Post-train | 9 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Content Intelligence Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify focused on Content Intelligence, responsible for leading end-to-end ML initiatives, designing and deploying large-scale ML systems for audio, text, and visual content. The role involves advancing capabilities in NLU, multimodal AI, and LLM-powered solutions, including RAG and agent orchestration, with a strong emphasis on rigorous evaluation methodologies and productionization. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Magenta Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on building production-grade machine learning systems for conversational and agentic AI experiences, including user intent interpretation, context management, multi-turn interactions, and tool orchestration. The role involves creating evaluation frameworks and balancing experimentation with production rigor. | AgentEval Gate | 8 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Intelligence Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale foundational ML systems for content understanding across audio, video, text, and images at Spotify. The role focuses on enabling automation, improving quality, and unlocking new product experiences for millions of listeners and creators. | Post-train | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineering Manager - Personalization Machine Learning Engineering Manager for the Personalization team, focusing on building and scaling ML systems for recommendations and safety across Spotify's core surfaces and generative AI experiences. The role involves managing teams that develop synthetic data, fairness, and responsible AI approaches. | ShipData | 8 |
| Senior Research Scientist - Personalization Senior Research Scientist at Spotify focused on advancing the state of the art in machine learning and AI for personalization systems, with a focus on large-scale foundation models and generative AI. The role involves developing novel methodologies, models, and evaluation frameworks, conducting experiments, and contributing to the research community through publications. Collaboration with cross-functional partners and mentoring are also key aspects. | Post-trainAgent | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Content Intelligence Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on understanding audio, text, and visual content using ML to power features like content skipping, transcription, moderation, and visual understanding within Spotify's consumer experience. | Post-train | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Enrichment & Content Intelligence Senior Machine Learning Engineer to evolve ML systems for Recording Groups, Music Video Resolution, SongDNA, and Music Knowledge Graph. Focus on multimodal ML, entity resolution, and production-scale engineering across audio, video, and metadata. | Data | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Personalization Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify focused on personalization, building recommendation systems and generative models for music surfaces used by hundreds of millions of users. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Policy & Safety team at Spotify, focusing on building systems for content moderation, policy enforcement, compliance, and safety-by-default. The role involves working with detection models, collaborative and agentic features, and ensuring safety is integrated into new product experiences. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Policy & Safety team, responsible for building systems that ensure Spotify's content and product experiences are safe and trustworthy at scale. This involves developing detection models, policy enforcement systems, compliance pipelines, and a safety-by-default platform, particularly for emerging AI-driven features. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Intelligence Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale foundational ML systems for content understanding (audio, video, text, images) at Spotify, enabling automation, improving quality, and unlocking new product experiences for millions of listeners and creators. | Data | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Policy & Safety team, focusing on building ML-driven systems for content moderation, policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance within Spotify's consumer experience. This role involves working at the intersection of ML, platform engineering, and compliance to ensure safety and trust across the platform. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Policy & Safety team, responsible for building and scaling ML-driven systems for content moderation, policy enforcement, and compliance within Spotify's consumer experience. This role involves working at the intersection of ML, platform engineering, and regulatory compliance to ensure user safety and trusted interactions. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Music Understanding Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on personalization for Spotify's music and podcast features, building recommendation systems and conversational playlist generation tools for hundreds of millions of users. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Platform Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale foundational ML systems for content understanding, safety, and decisioning within Spotify's consumer experience. This role focuses on shaping the architecture and technical strategy for evaluating, governing, and safely delivering content globally, impacting both listeners and creators. | ShipData | 7 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Policy & Safety Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale ML systems for content safety, policy enforcement, and compliance at Spotify. The role focuses on automated systems that evaluate and act on content, ensuring decisions are consistent, explainable, and reliable at scale, which is critical for maintaining trust. | Eval GatePost-train | 7 |
| Engineering Manager - AI Fleet Management & Honk Engineering Manager to lead a team building the next generation of fleet management and AI agents for Spotify's external developer platform (Portal). The role focuses on redesigning platform engineering around intelligent agents, LLMs, and automation to improve how developers ship and maintain software at scale. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Generative UI Platform Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build a generative UI system for prototyping at Spotify. The role involves working at the intersection of ML, design systems, and product development to enable teams to prompt for interfaces. | Agent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer for Spotify's Music Promotion team, focusing on building systems to understand and predict promotion performance for creators, providing actionable insights and data-driven solutions. | Ship | 7 |