# Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety 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: Hybrid
- Pay: $184K to $263K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/9eca14d3-8e0b-46de-8161-704e07f3d9d0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/spotify-senior-machine-learning-engineer-policy-and-safety/

## About the role

Design, build, and ship production-grade machine learning systems that power content safety and policy enforcement at Spotify scale Own and lead key technical initiatives across detection, classification, and policy evaluation systems

## What they're looking for

- You have solid experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments at scale
- You are experienced with training, evaluating, and maintaining ML models using modern frameworks such as PyTorch
- You have a deep understanding of machine learning evaluation, including dataset design, metrics, and continuous improvement systems
- You know how to design systems that balance performance, reliability, and real-world impact in high-stakes domains
- You care about building safe, responsible, and user-centric ML systems
- You are comfortable working across disciplines, partnering with legal, policy, and product stakeholders

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