Currently tracking 37 active AI roles, with 77 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $110k–$402k (avg $223k).
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.
Spotify currently has 41 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Machine Learning Engineer (2), Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Samba (2), Research Scientist - Music (2), Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety (2), Senior Research Scientist - Music (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Spotify's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (39%), application (34%), post-training (15%). 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 (24 roles), Sweden (15 roles), United Kingdom (14 roles), Canada (1 role).
Job postings at Spotify most frequently reference: recommender systems, model serving, agent orchestration, multimodal, llm observability.
In the past 30 days, Spotify has posted 7 new AI-related roles. That is a -78% change versus the prior 30 days (32 → 7).
| 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 Machine Learning Engineer, Zeitgeist, Personalization Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on building systems and models for real-time culture understanding using LLMs and agentic workflows, contributing to personalized listening experiences for millions of users. | Agent | 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 - Music Engineering Manager to lead a Research Engineering team focused on generative AI for music. The role involves managing engineers, owning the engineering roadmap, ensuring efficient training pipelines, and transitioning research into production features for a large user base. | Post-trainServe | 8 |
| Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Developer Experience Senior Backend Engineer focused on building the platform and infrastructure for internal AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers at Spotify, aiming to improve reliability, safety, and scalability, and defining best practices for enterprise AI platforms. | AgentEval Gate | 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 |
| 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 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 |
| Director, Machine Learning Engineering - Surfaces Foundation Director of Machine Learning Engineering for Spotify's Surfaces Foundation team, focusing on personalized recommendations for hundreds of millions of users. The role involves leading a team that shapes AI-driven recommendations across all Spotify surfaces, bridging ML infrastructure and product experience, and overseeing serving and evaluation systems. | ShipServe | 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 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Samba Machine Learning Engineer role focused on personalization at Spotify, powering features like autoplay, radio, and personalized mixes. The role involves working on complex sequencing and optimization problems, balancing user preferences with business and creator needs, and delivering real-time personalization at scale. It blends machine learning, backend engineering, and data expertise. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Personalization team at Spotify, focusing on building and productizing ML models for recommendation systems to improve user satisfaction and listening experience. The role involves collaboration with researchers and data scientists to enhance Home recommendation systems. | Ship | 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 |
| Backend Engineer - Personalization Backend Engineer role focused on building and owning real-time recommendation and content discovery systems for Spotify's Now Playing View. The role involves integrating with ML serving infrastructure, ensuring low latency, and designing systems for agent-generated code, with a strong emphasis on A/B testing and production reliability. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Security Engineer - Product Security Security Engineer focused on protecting Spotify's platform and users, with a specific emphasis on securing AI/ML systems and generative AI applications. The role involves integrating security best practices, conducting threat modeling, evaluating security tools for AI/ML, and contributing to incident response for AI systems. | ShipData | 7 |
| Staff Engineer - Content Intelligence Infrastructure Staff Engineer to build and scale foundational infrastructure for content understanding (audio, video, text, images) at Spotify. This role involves backend systems, ML infrastructure, distributed data systems, and AI-enabled platform capabilities, focusing on infrastructure strategy and execution. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager – Partner Growth Senior Product Manager for Partner Growth at Spotify, focusing on shaping Spotify's AI-driven experiences across partner ecosystems and mobile platforms. This role involves defining product strategy for key partnerships, leading the development of AI experiences with partners like Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Samsung, and driving ubiquity features such as widgets and lockscreen integrations. | — | 5 |
| Fullstack Engineer II - Conversational Analytic Fullstack Engineer II role focused on building AI-native conversational analytics experiences using LLMs to allow teams to explore and understand data intuitively. The role involves building end-to-end features, designing AI-native workflows for natural language data querying, and integrating LLMs into production systems. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Applied Research Engineer - Media Quality Senior Applied Research Engineer focused on improving media quality (audio/video) for Spotify's consumer experience, working across the full media pipeline from backend processing to frontend playback. The role involves building evaluation frameworks, designing perceptual studies, and integrating research prototypes into production systems. | — | 5 |
| Annotation Manager - Content Platform The Annotation Manager will facilitate the collection of labeled datasets used to train and evaluate machine learning systems for Spotify's Content Platform, focusing on Music, Podcasts, and Audiobooks. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Security Engineer - Enterprise Security Senior Security Engineer focused on enterprise security at Spotify, involving IAM, endpoint management, and networking. The role requires building security tooling and automation, defining policies and guardrails, and partnering with various teams. A comfort with AI as both a tool and a security surface is desired. | — | 5 |
| Product Designer - Core Experience (Core Value & Engagement) Product Designer for Spotify's core consumer experience, focusing on mobile apps. The role involves shaping features related to music discovery, playlist curation, and library organization, with an emphasis on user engagement and retention. The designer will collaborate with cross-functional teams and leverage AI-powered tools to enhance design efficiency and explore new features. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager - ML / Subscriptions Growth Product Manager for ML/Subscriptions Growth at Spotify, focusing on driving user and revenue growth through personalization and ML models. This role operates at the intersection of ML innovation and commercial strategy. | — | 5 |
| Product Designer - AI Partnerships Product Designer focused on AI Partnerships, creating consumer experiences across AI assistants, chat interfaces, and connected devices within partner ecosystems. The role involves using AI-assisted tools and collaborating with various teams to deliver seamless and adaptive experiences. | — | 5 |
| Fullstack Engineer - Generative UI Platform Fullstack Engineer to scale Spotify's internal generative UI prototyping platform, evolving it into a full generative UI system where teams can prompt for interfaces. The role involves shaping architecture, evolving core systems, and delivering developer-facing platform functionality. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Analyst - Internal Audit & Risk Senior Analyst for Internal Audit & Risk at Spotify, focusing on implementing audit strategy across the product lifecycle. The role involves building tools with AI agents, supporting SOX compliance, and conducting assurance/advisory projects in technology and product areas. Requires an engineering background, understanding of AI systems, and experience with AI coding assistants. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager – Financial Engineering - Tax Solutions Senior Product Manager for Financial Engineering focusing on Tax Solutions at Spotify. This role involves defining product strategy and roadmaps for Spotify's tax technology ecosystem, balancing internal development with third-party solutions. Responsibilities include driving discovery, prioritization, and execution of initiatives supporting tax operations, treasury processes, and regulatory reporting. The role requires close collaboration with Tax, Treasury, Accounting, and Engineering partners to ensure operational excellence, compliance, and automation at a global scale. It sits at the intersection of finance, product strategy, enterprise systems, and engineering. | — | 0 |
| Senior Client Engineer - Core Experience (Formats & Foundations) Senior Client Engineer role focused on designing, building, and evolving mobile experiences and foundational platform capabilities for Spotify's consumer-facing surfaces. The role involves contributing to architecture, leading technical initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams, driving engineering quality, and mentoring engineers. It also includes exploring modern engineering workflows and AI-assisted development tools. | — | 0 |
| Client Engineer II - Core Experience (Formats & Foundations) Spotify is looking for a mid-level mobile engineer to join their Format Foundations team, which focuses on building user-facing experiences and mobile foundations for music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The role involves contributing to platform foundations, reusable components, and infrastructure, while also exploring modern engineering workflows like experimentation and AI-assisted development. | — | 0 |
| Group Product Manager - Messaging Group Product Manager for Spotify's Messaging team, focusing on evolving the system from a delivery layer into an intelligent, governed platform that optimizes user communication. | — | 0 |
| Senior Backend Engineer - Audiobooks Senior Backend Engineer for Spotify's Audiobooks Mission, focusing on building and scaling systems for audiobook ingestion, processing, and delivery. The role involves full-stack development with a backend and data focus, requiring collaboration, operational responsibility, and adaptability. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager - Core Experience (Core value and Engagement) Engineering Manager for Spotify's Core Experience team, focusing on user engagement and core value features. This role involves leading a cross-functional engineering team, supporting engineers' growth, contributing to technical direction, and collaborating with product, design, and data partners to build meaningful user experiences. The role also emphasizes creating an inclusive team environment and guiding the adoption of AI-assisted development practices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager - Subscriptions Mission Product Manager for Spotify's Subscriptions Mission, focusing on the freemium funnel, user acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization strategies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Full Stack Engineer - WhoSampled Senior Full Stack Engineer for WhoSampled, a music database of samples, interpolations, covers, and remixes, now part of Spotify. The role involves working across the full stack, including data pipelines, backend APIs, and the web app, with a focus on being a generalist. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager - Acquisition & Retention Product Manager for Spotify's Subscriptions Mission, focusing on user acquisition, activation, and retention within the freemium funnel. This role will shape the subscriber journey across plans and markets, partnering with various cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| Royalty Operations, Senior Analyst Senior Analyst on the Royalty Operations team, responsible for royalty configuration, reporting, and operational processes supporting Spotify's creator and rightsholder ecosystems. Focuses on data, systems thinking, and collaboration to solve complex operational challenges and improve partner support. | — | 0 |
| Legal Counsel - Licensing & Business Development Legal Counsel specializing in Licensing & Business Development for a consumer tech company, focusing on partnerships and commercial agreements, including those related to AI. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager - Core Experience (Format Foundations) Engineering Manager for Spotify's Core Experience Studio, leading the Meadow backend platform team which powers scalable, content-agnostic metadata delivery across various Spotify experiences like music, podcasts, and audiobooks. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager - Social Listening Engineering Manager for Spotify's Social Listening team, focusing on building and enhancing real-time music sharing experiences like Jam. The role involves leading a cross-functional team to shape the consumer experience across various platforms. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager - Content Platform Engineering Manager for the Content Platform team at Spotify, responsible for leading a team that ensures efficient and reliable delivery of content (metadata and media) across Spotify's ecosystem to apps and partner platforms. This role focuses on scalable, observable, and resilient systems that underpin content ingestion, understanding, governance, and distribution. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager - Sharing & Social Senior Product Manager for Spotify's Sharing & Social experiences, focusing on integrating audio into social moments and platforms. This role involves shaping product strategy, managing partnerships, and driving end-to-end product execution to enhance user expression and connection through audio. | — | 0 |
| Director of Engineering, Experience Director of Engineering for Spotify's consumer experience, focusing on the systems that define, structure, and govern all content across the platform. The role involves shaping technical direction, developing teams, and evolving systems for a large-scale content ecosystem, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and availability while maintaining trust and quality in a growing and complex environment, including new formats, use cases, and regulatory considerations. | — | 0 |
| Backend Engineer- Release Backend Engineer on the Release squad within Client Platform Studio, focusing on building tools, systems, and workflows for safe, fast, and confident software releases for thousands of Spotify engineers. The role emphasizes reliability, developer productivity, and standardization for internal platforms impacting software delivery at scale. | — | 0 |
| Senior Engineer- Mobile iOS Platform Senior Engineer on the Mobile iOS Platform team at Spotify, focusing on evolving the architecture, improving developer experience, and building platform-level components for mobile applications. The role involves designing and implementing strategies for system development and testing, enabling interoperability between iOS and C++ codebases, and contributing to technical strategy. The role explicitly mentions using AI tools for exploration and prototyping but is not an AI/ML development role. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager, Core Experience (Playback) Senior Product Manager to lead the playback experience across Spotify’s mobile apps, shaping how content, controls, and context come together to create seamless, personalized listening experiences. | — | 0 |
| Senior C++ Engineer - Mobile Infrastructure - Connectivity Senior Mobile Engineer role focused on the client networking stack, including HTTP requests, real-time messaging, and connection state management. The role involves working on mobile platforms and backend systems to ensure seamless connectivity for users globally, shaping client-server communication, protocols, and reliability at scale. | — | 0 |
| Backend Engineer - Core Infrastructure Backend Engineers to join Spotify’s Core Infrastructure team, focusing on content delivery management (CDN) and the internal platform supporting it, to enable engineers to deliver reliable and scalable experiences globally. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager - Platform Tooling Product Manager for Platform Tooling focused on internal financial workflows, aiming to make complex work easier and more intuitive for operators. The team builds shared web tooling, frameworks, and operator-facing products, with a growing investment in AI-powered capabilities for decision-making. | — | 0 |