Spotify
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Magenta
New York, NY · Senior
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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
$9,411 more — $193,461 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 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 $193,461 would place this position at wage Level IV. 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
- moves fast by staying hyper-focused: we pick a focused set of problems, ship new features to users weekly, and learn in the wild.
Responsibilities
- We constantly dogfood our product and learn from users' data and feedback to find the most important next thing to build or improve, together.
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
- $184k-$263k
Benefits
- The United States base range for this position is $184,050- $262,928 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
- we pick a focused set of problems, ship new features to users weekly, and learn in the wild.
- At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
This listing is sourced directly from Spotify's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.