Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Music

We are looking for a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer to help us build the next generation of AI-based audio understanding technologies. Our team expands the state of the art in AI-based machine listening technology, which enables new ways to search, re-use, explore, understand, and recommend music. We build products for Spotify users, artists, music labels, publishers, managers, advertisers, and more. Most of our projects cut across all of Spotify and have company-wide impact. We develop features to improve products and lay the foundations for exciting new product opportunities.

• Build massive data processing pipelines to run ML models on audio at petabyte-scaleWork cross-functionally with other engineers, research scientists, and product managers to build audio ML research into Spotify’s products to serve hundreds of millions of users
• Build best-in-class infrastructure and tooling to support and accelerate model training
• Work closely with research scientists to debug, optimize, and convert ML models for deployment
• Debug problems across the entire stack, from low-level debugging to high-level system design
• Collaborate with customer teams to deploy our research in products around Spotify, in backend, data, mobile, core, and other code bases
• Scope the feasibility of projects through quick prototyping to assess performance, quality, time and cost
• Help maintain crucial pieces of Spotify-owned open-source audio software infrastructure like Pedalboard, Basic Pitch, and more

• You have professional experience working with machine learning systems
• You have a very strong grasp of Python, but are happy to work in languages like Java, Scala, C++, and others as necessary
• You have very strong communication skills and can collaborate effectively with ML researchers, product stakeholders, and executives across various geographies
• You have strong systems fundamentals and can debug problems down to the operating system level
• You have a good understanding of performance and can design and engineer systems that scale without breaking the bank
• You have experience debugging, profiling, optimizing, or deploying ML models
• You have worked with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure
• You have proven experience implementing and maintaining large-scale production software systems
• You are interested in learning more about audio processing and music information retrieval and you're excited about building products that use such technologies
• You are willing to go on call to support the systems we build, and are willing to build systems for reliability to avoid on-call fatigue. (The team averages 1 incident per quarter.)
• Experience with deep learning techniques for content based processing (audio, image, video data) is a plus

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EST time zone as long as we have a work location.

The United States base range for this position is $171,903.00 - $245,575.00 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. These ranges may be modified in the future.