Spotify
Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Minesweeper
New York, New York, USA · full-time
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$27,339 more — $165,589 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $165,589 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next on Spotify easier and more enjoyable for every listener.
- We seek to understand the world of music, podcasts, and audiobooks better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual person and keep the world listening.
- For this role, you can be within the North America region as long as we have a work location.This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
Responsibilities
- We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses.
- We use AI and ML techniques, including Large Language Models, to understand music, podcasts and audiobooks, building reliable, scalable systems to distribute that knowledge to Spotify internal teams, users, and creators.
- This is a unique opportunity to help develop and shape Spotify content enrichment, and recommendations.
Requirements
- You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what's playing in your headphones.
Compensation
- $138k-$198k
Benefits
- We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join our team and help build the future of music, podcast and audiobook listening experiences for millions of listeners at Spotify.
- Experience with Ray or TFX is a plus Bonus if you have experience with architecting near real time pipelines Where You'll Be We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best!
- The United States base range for this position is $138,250- $197,500 plus equity.
- The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave.
Company info
- At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone.
- Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace.
- You'll grow your skills in ML engineering at scale, work with a cross-functional team of Data Engineers, Backend Engineers, and researchers, and join a motivated and supportive team.
Equal opportunity
- Spotify is an equal opportunity employer.
- equal opportunity employer.
This listing is sourced directly from Spotify's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.