Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Intelligence

at Spotify · Consumer · London, United Kingdom +1 · Experience

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.

What you'd actually do

  1. build and scale foundational ML systems that power content understanding across Spotify
  2. work on systems that generate deep, machine-readable understanding of content across audio, video, text, and images
  3. enabling automation, improving quality, and unlocking new product experiences
  4. delivering safe, high-quality, and differentiated experiences for millions of listeners and creators worldwide

Skills

Required

  • Machine Learning
  • ML systems
  • content understanding
  • audio processing
  • video processing
  • text processing
  • image processing

Nice to have

  • Python
  • Java
  • Scala
  • C++
  • Go

Other signals

  • ML systems
  • content understanding
  • audio, video, text, and images
  • automation
  • improving quality
  • new product experiences
  • safe, high-quality, and differentiated experiences
  • global scale
Read full 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 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 continues to grow—driven by advances in AI and new creation tools—we’re building intelligent systems that can evaluate, manage, and route content reliably at global scale.

We’re seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale foundational ML systems that power content understanding across Spotify. In this role, you’ll work on systems that generate deep, machine-readable understanding of content across audio, video, text, and images—enabling automation, improving quality, and unlocking new product experiences. This work is central to delivering safe, high-quality, and differentiated experiences for millions of listeners and creators worldwide.

What You Will Do

Who You Are

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.