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 Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale foundational ML systems that power content understanding, safety, and decisioning across the platform. In this role, you’ll shape the architecture and technical strategy that ensures content is evaluated, governed, and safely delivered at global scale. This work is foundational to delivering safe, high-quality experiences for both listeners and creators, while enabling new ways to interact with content across Spotify.
What You Will Do
Shape the machine learning strategy for content understanding and platform-level decisioning
Build & scale ML systems for classification, moderation, ranking, risk detection across multimodal content
Develop automated decisioning systems that ensure content quality, integrity, & policy compliance at scale
Design and deploy models across text, audio, image, and video domains
Build systems that enable controlled, reliable access to content and metadata for downstream applications
Collaborate with product, policy, trust & safety teams to operationalize content standards across platform
Improve automation to reduce manual intervention while maintaining high standards of trust and quality
Mentor engineers and contribute to best practices in ML engineering, evaluation, and system design
Who You Are
You have strong experience building production-grade machine learning systems at scale
You are experienced with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
You have worked with or are interested in multimodal machine learning
You understand how to design systems that balance automation with quality, safety, and user experience
You are comfortable working on complex, ambiguous problems with high impact
You think in systems, connecting models to platform-level outcomes and user experiences
You care deeply about data quality, evaluation rigor, and system reliability
You communicate clearly and influence across technical and non-technical teams
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.
Skills Required
- Experience building production-grade machine learning systems at scale
- Experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
- Interest in multimodal machine learning
- Understanding of designing systems balancing automation with quality and user experience
- Ability to communicate clearly across technical and non-technical teams
Spotify Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Spotify and has not been reviewed or approved by Spotify.
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Flexible Benefits — Employees consistently praise the total compensation package beyond base salary, highlighting a mix of RSUs, cash incentives, and stipends alongside core pay. The package is described as flexible and customizable through equity choices (e.g., RSUs, options, cash) that can be tailored for long-term wealth building.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are repeatedly highlighted as substantial, including generous vacation, paid sick days, volunteer time, and flexible holidays. These policies are framed as a meaningful part of the overall rewards experience beyond salary.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, and mental health support. Additional employer contributions to HSAs are cited as strengthening the overall health and wellness value proposition.
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What We Do
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