Remote Machine Learning Engineer II - Subscriptions

Description:

• The Machine Learning Engineer II position focuses on building robust and scalable machine learning solutions to personalize activation, retention, and conversion funnels at Spotify.
• The goal is to improve key business metrics such as subscriptions (SUBS) and monthly active users (MAU) through an ensemble of machine learning models.
• The team aims to create a fully personalized and ML-optimized offer and trial targeting system to demonstrate the value of Spotify Premium to users.
• Responsibilities include designing, building, evaluating, shipping, and refining Spotify’s product through hands-on machine learning development.
• The role involves collaboration with a multi-functional agile team, including user research, design, data science, product management, and engineering.
• The engineer will prototype new approaches and productionize solutions at scale for hundreds of millions of active users.
• The position also requires driving optimization, testing, and tooling to enhance quality.
• The engineer will be part of an active group of machine learning practitioners within Spotify.

Requirements:

• A strong background in machine learning, both in theory and practice, is essential for this role.
• The candidate should be comfortable explaining the intuition and assumptions behind machine learning concepts; experience in the messaging space is a plus.
• Hands-on experience in implementing and maintaining production machine learning systems using Python, Scala, and libraries like TensorFlow or PyTorch is required.
• The candidate must have experience in building data pipelines and be self-sufficient in acquiring the necessary data to build and evaluate models.
• Preferably, the candidate should have experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Benefits:

• The position offers a competitive salary range of $171,903 - $245,575, plus equity.
• Benefits include health insurance and a six-month paid parental leave.
• A 401(k) retirement plan is provided to help employees save for the future.
• Employees receive a monthly meal allowance to support their well-being.
• The role includes 23 paid days off and 13 paid flexible holidays for work-life balance.
• Paid sick leave is also available to ensure employees can take care of their health.