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 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. |
| 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 Staff Machine Learning Engineer Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify focusing on recommender systems modeling at the intersection of generative recommenders and foundational understanding of personalization across music and talk content formats. The role involves defining and executing ML technical strategy, building next-generation content and user representations, and supporting technical architecture. Responsibilities include hands-on ML development, prototyping, productionizing solutions, and providing technical leadership. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| 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 - 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 |
| Backend Engineer - Music Spotify is seeking a Backend Engineer for its Artist-First AI Music lab to design and build state-of-the-art generative music products. The role focuses on creating new listening experiences for fans and artists, emphasizing artist partnerships, fair compensation, and artist-fan connection through AI tools. The engineer will contribute to shipping AI-powered music products. | Ship | 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 |
| Machine Learning Engineer - Personalization Machine Learning Engineer for Spotify's Personalization team, focusing on improving music and podcast recommendations and search experiences. The role involves bringing emerging search and agentic experiences to a mature state, exploring, defining, building, validating, and optimizing new ideas. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Agentic Systems Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify focused on building an agent-powered platform for personalized listening experiences, including features like DJ, Search, and AI Playlists. The role involves working on a shared Agent Engine that powers agent-based experiences across the company, integrating distributed systems, ML, and user experience. | Agent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Samba Machine Learning Engineer on the Personalization team at Spotify, focusing on the Samba engine which powers recommendations, autoplay, radio, and personalized mixes. The role involves complex sequencing and optimization problems, balancing user preferences with business and creator needs, and delivering real-time personalization at scale. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Personalization team at Spotify, focusing on recommendation systems for music and podcasts to improve user satisfaction and engagement. The role involves prototyping and productizing state-of-the-art ML models. | Ship | 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 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer on the Personalization team at Spotify, focusing on recommendation systems to improve user satisfaction. The role involves designing, building, evaluating, integrating, and refining reward signals for recommendations, with a focus on A/B testing and integrating mid-term signals. Requires hands-on ML development and production ML systems experience. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Content Designer, Personalization Content Designer for Spotify's Personalization team, focusing on designing prompts, conversational flows, and system language for LLM-powered agentic experiences to shape user discovery and recommendations. This role involves leading content strategy, authoring and evaluating prompts, and partnering with engineering on human-in-the-loop evaluations. | Agent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Minesweeper Machine Learning Engineer on the Personalization team at Spotify, focusing on using LLMs for content understanding (music, podcasts, audiobooks) to improve recommendations and user experiences. The role involves hands-on ML development, fine-tuning, RAG, and building scalable systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Engineer - Content Intelligence Infrastructure Staff Engineer focused on building and scaling foundational infrastructure for content understanding (audio, video, text, images) at Spotify. This role involves ML infrastructure, distributed data systems, and AI-enabled platform capabilities to power content enrichment, quality analysis, and annotation platforms. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Engineering Manager - Native Ads Senior Engineering Manager for Native Ads within Spotify's Music Mission. This role leads teams building advertising experiences that integrate with the listening journey, focusing on music, advertising, and personalization. It involves managing engineering managers and senior engineers, setting technical direction, driving delivery across distributed systems, and partnering with product and data science on ML-driven solutions. | Ship | 5 |
| Data Science Manager, Music Recommendations Manager for Data Science team focused on Music Recommendations, supporting Music Editorial teams with analytics for strategic decision making. | — | 5 |
| Backend Engineer, Music Backend Engineer for Spotify's OASIS team, focusing on promotion delivery and optimization within Discovery Mode. The role involves building and operating systems that intelligently allocate promotional content by balancing complex objectives, working closely with Personalization teams. The engineer will own a core piece of infrastructure for promotion delivery at scale and is expected to leverage AI to improve systems, with exposure to data and ML workflows. | Agent | 5 |
| Director of Sales - Backstage Director of Sales for Spotify's B2B SaaS business, Shipping Our Expertise (SOE), which is built on their Backstage platform. The flagship products, Backstage Portal and Confidence, are AI-first and designed for both human developers and automated systems, leveraging Spotify's internal platform capabilities. | — | 1 |
| Backend Engineer - Podcast Backend Engineer responsible for the platform powering podcast and video podcast distribution, including ingestion, management, and internal tooling. | — | 0 |
| Technical Operations Lead This role is for a Technical Operations Lead at Spotify, focusing on managing and improving technical support operations for advertisers, sales partners, and internal stakeholders. The lead will handle escalations, support daily operations, and act as a liaison between customers and engineering to resolve issues and enhance the support experience. The role is not directly involved in AI/ML development but operates within a consumer-focused tech company. | — | 0 |
| Billing Operations Lead Lead billing operations for Spotify's self-serve and direct buying channels, managing vendor support, collaborating with Finance and Accounting on systems, and working with Fraud teams to ensure accuracy and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Systems Manager - Financial Systems Operations Lead a team of analysts responsible for the day-to-day operations and continuous improvement of core SaaS platforms supporting Spotify's global financial operations, including Finance, Procurement, Accounting, and Legal partners. | — | 0 |
| Full Stack Engineer - Podcast Full Stack Engineer role focused on building and scaling creator tools for Spotify's Podcast Vertical, specifically working on subscriptions and fandom experiences. The role involves developing new features, enhancing existing platforms like Synced Feeds and the Spotify Open Access API, and establishing a foundation for creator monetization. | — | 0 |
| Platform Integrity Lead This role focuses on managing and improving the incident management process for Spotify's Ads business, ensuring smooth operations, protecting revenue, and strengthening client relationships. It involves cross-functional collaboration with various teams including Product, Engineering, Sales, and Finance. | — | 0 |
| Paralegal, Corporate and Compliance Paralegal role focused on corporate governance, compliance, and SEC filings for a public company. Responsibilities include managing disclosures, stock maintenance, insider trading compliance, and ESG developments. Requires experience in public company securities and compliance matters, strong organizational skills, and attention to detail. Familiarity with AI-powered tools for efficiency is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Legal Counsel, Podcast Monetization Legal Counsel for Spotify's podcast monetization business, focusing on partnerships, agreements, and regulatory compliance for creator monetization programs and advertising technology. | — | 0 |
| Lead Producer, Audiobook Production Lead Producer for Spotify's Audiobook team, focusing on creating a high-quality listening experience, managing production, and collaborating with various teams to scale content delivery. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Finance – IRL Ventures This role is a foundational finance position responsible for building investment models, unit economic frameworks, and operational governance for new in-person experiences at Spotify. The Senior Manager will partner with leadership to produce scenario analysis and manage the financial lifecycle of infrastructure and operational investments. | — | 0 |
| Legal Counsel - Platform Liability Legal Counsel specializing in Platform Liability and Enforcement at Spotify, advising on global compliance with platform liability frameworks and content safe harbor laws, managing legal takedown processes, and providing legal advice on new products and content policies. | — | 0 |
| Data Scientist - Subscriptions Data Scientist role focused on understanding and improving Spotify Premium subscriptions by analyzing user behavior, value drivers, engagement, and overall experience. This role works closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Research to inform strategic decisions impacting millions of users. | — | 0 |
| Global Associate Director, Experiential & Content Production Spotify is seeking an Associate Director for their Global Experiential and Content Production team. This role will support various business functions by bringing their initiatives to life through strategic events and content. The position requires significant travel and involves guiding both experiential work and content creation. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager – Messaging Platform & Tooling Engineering Manager for Spotify's Messaging Platform & Tooling, focusing on the system that determines what messages users receive across various channels (push notifications, email, in-app). The role involves shaping the next generation of this platform, with a specific focus on the 'Selection squad' which acts as the real-time decision engine for message delivery to users. | — | 0 |
| Senior Engineering Manager - Spotify for Artists Senior Engineering Manager for Spotify for Artists, leading a team focused on creator tools and services for music artists. The role involves managing managers, driving product innovation, and ensuring platform reliability for a large user base. | — | 0 |
| Backend Engineer, Music Backend Engineer for Spotify's Music Mission, focusing on the end-to-end campaign booking experience for creators. The role involves owning the full lifecycle of campaign management tools, ensuring a seamless, reliable, and scalable flow. While the core is backend engineering, there's a stated interest in leveraging AI to improve systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Analyst, FP&A, Music Publishing Deal Analysis Senior Analyst, FP&A, Music Publishing Deal Analysis at Spotify. This role partners with Licensing, Legal, and Finance to evaluate and structure music publishing deals, translating complex agreements into financial insights for decision-making. It involves working at the intersection of music, data, and strategy within the finance department. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Partner Product and Delivery Manager, Partner Product and Delivery role at Spotify focused on managing technical implementation and performance of Premium Partnerships projects in Latin America. Responsibilities include participating in partner discussions, technical setup, ensuring delivery of commitments, documenting actions, and developing tooling with R&D to scale the business. Requires experience in telecom, internet start-up, media, or digital music industries, proficiency in English and Spanish, and a technical background with skills in REST APIs, SQL, BigQuery, JIRA, GitHub, AI functionality understanding, and software development (Java/Python). | — | 0 |
| Head of Backstage Marketing Marketing leadership role for Spotify's Backstage platform, a SaaS and open-source developer portal, focusing on their B2B SaaS business (Shipping Our Expertise) and shaping the broader Spotify R&D brand. The role involves marketing a platform that enables companies to manage microservices and improve developer experience, including in the context of AI. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Consolidation Manager, Consolidation at Spotify responsible for global consolidation system, validation and analysis of financial results, and supporting financial reporting needs. This role involves leading change, driving process efficiency, managing inter-company relationships, and implementing consolidation systems for major projects like acquisitions and divestitures, ensuring compliance with IFRS. | — | 0 |
| Backend Engineer, Podcast Backend Engineer for Spotify's Podcast Mission, focusing on core infrastructure for content processing, uploading, transformation, and distribution. The team also explores and builds APIs/infrastructure for AI-driven creator and listener experiences in podcasts and video. | — | 0 |
| Data Scientist, Subscriptions Data Scientist role focused on analyzing subscriber behavior, measuring the impact of plan changes, and generating insights to drive growth and engagement for Spotify's subscription offerings. This role is part of the Portfolio Data Science team within the Subscriptions Product Insights group. | — | 0 |
| Analyst, Licensing Finance – FP&A This role is for an Analyst in Licensing Finance within FP&A at Spotify. The primary responsibilities include evaluating and modeling licensing agreements, supporting royalties forecasting, and analyzing performance to influence the long-term economics of the music business. The role involves partnering with various teams like Licensing, Legal, Royalty Operations, Data, Product, and Finance to model complex agreements and provide data-driven insights. | — | 0 |
| Senior Sales Engineer - Backstage Spotify is seeking a Senior Sales Engineer for their Backstage platform, focusing on pre-sales work to help organizations adopt and integrate Backstage for managing developer portals, workflows, and development processes. The role involves understanding Backstage's technical aspects, assisting clients with integration and customization, providing technical guidance, conducting demonstrations, and collaborating with internal teams to incorporate client feedback. | — | 0 |