# Senior Applied Research Scientist - Personalization at Spotify

- Company: Spotify
- What the company does: Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. Backed by Accel, Kleiner Perkins and Norwest.
- Company website: http://www.spotify.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $169K to $242K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/6eb9ce0e-5372-4a4f-b2fa-d005f9426750
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/spotify-senior-applied-research-scientist-personalization/

## About the role

he Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Blend to Discover Weekly, we're behind some of Spotify's most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you'll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them.

## What they're looking for

- You have a strong background in ML (PhD degree on top of professional experience), and
- experience in working with any of the following: transformers, GANs, diffusion models, flow matching, VAEs, audio codecs
- You have experience in developing generative models for speech synthesis, speech recognition, audio/music, natural language processing, or computer vision
- You have strong experience with Python, particularly PyTorch
- You have strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical ideas with clarity to technical and non-technical people alike
- You have experience in an academic or professional setting conducting high-quality research

Tags: Personalization