Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Platform
Core
Build and scale foundational ML systems for content understanding, safety, policy enforcement, and decisioning across Spotify's music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
Role type
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Content Platform)
Builds
Production ML systems for classification, moderation, ranking, risk detection, and automated decisioning at global scale.
Domain
Streaming media, content moderation, multimodal AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Production-grade ML system design at scale, multimodal machine learning (text, audio, image, video), modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX), automated decisioning systems, system architecture and strategy, technical leadership and mentoring
Preferred skills
Experience with content safety and policy compliance, balancing automation with quality and fairness, rigorous model evaluation
Technologies
PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX
Responsibilities
Define and drive ML strategy for content understanding and safety; Build and scale production ML systems for classification, moderation, and risk detection; Design and deploy systems across multiple content modalities; Enable controlled access to content metadata for downstream products; Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership
