# Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Platform 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: $281K to $402K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/47d4eabf-8d5a-4dab-ac72-de7b5b56841c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/spotify-senior-staff-machine-learning-engineer-content-platform/

## About the role

We’re hiring Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineers to build and scale foundational ML systems that power content understanding, safety, policy enforcement, and decisioning across Spotify. Depending on your experience and interests, you may focus on areas ranging from multimodal content understanding and platform-level ML systems to safety, risk detection, policy enforcement, and compliance.

## What they're looking for

- You have significant experience designing and building production-grade machine learning systems at scale
- You have deep experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or similar
- You have experience with—or a strong interest in—multimodal machine learning across areas such as text, audio, image, or video
- You have built systems where machine learning outputs inform or automate real-world decisions
- You understand how to balance automation with quality, safety, reliability, and user experience
- You’re comfortable tackling complex and ambiguous technical problems with significant product and business impact

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