Research Scientist - Personalization

New York, NY, US

Posted on Jan 9, 2026

Full TimeMid LevelRemoteData and Analytics

Job Description

Spotify has more than 600M listeners in more than 180 markets around the world, who use our music, podcast, and audiobook services to find what delights, entertains, educates, and informs them. Personalization is a high impact organization that provides the technology to serve them what they expect to find, to help them explore and find new things to enjoy, and to suggest things they might not be aware of that they would like.

We are looking for a Research Scientist with a machine learning background to help us improve personalization experiences by integrating and optimizing state-of-the-art generative AI technologies into our recommender systems. You will join a team of machine learning researchers whose focus is on innovating the Spotify experience through researching and developing technologies that power intelligent user experiences for long-term satisfaction.

You will be part of an interdisciplinary team focusing on ensuring that the foundations of Spotify technologies are at or above the state of the art and, in the process, redefine the state of the art for the field and contributing to the wider research community by publishing papers. Our team has strong ties internally to product groups as well as externally to the research community.

About Spotify

Spotify Technology S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides audio streaming services worldwide. It operates through Premium and Ad-Supported segments. The Premium segment offers unlimited online and offline streaming access to its catalog of music and podcasts without commercial breaks to its subscribers. The Ad-Supported segment provides on-demand online access to its catalog of music and unlimited online access to the catalog of podcasts to its subscribers on their computers, tablets,...

Job overview

Employment type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid Level

Work type

Remote

Department

Data and Analytics

Posted

on Jan 9, 2026

About

Job Link

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Financials

Type

public

Annual Revenue

$10B+

Market Cap

$15B+

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