# Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Home Surfaces 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: $227K to $325K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/281e7db9-86ba-4a1c-8773-c23b96ed32dc
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/spotify-staff-machine-learning-engineer-home-surfaces/

## About the role

Own and improve the machine learning models and systems that power the Home feed, including the Shortcuts experience. Design, build, and ship personalized recommendations that serve millions of Spotify listeners globally.

## What they're looking for

- You have 8+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments
- You have deep expertise in recommendation systems, ranking models, personalization, or large-scale content discovery platforms
- You have strong proficiency in Python and hands-on experience building machine learning systems with PyTorch
- You are experienced with large language model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and optimization techniques including SFT, distillation, and LoRA
- You have worked with large-scale inference systems and understand the challenges of latency, reliability, and cost optimization
- You care deeply about creating high-quality user experiences through thoughtful application of machine learning

Tags: Personalization