Machine Learning Engineering Manager - Surfaces Music

Job description

The Surfaces Music team builds the systems that power music recommendations across some of Spotify’s most visible experiences, including Home and the Now Playing view. We work across candidate generation, ranking, and embedding models to help listeners discover both new releases and deep catalog favorites. We’re also shaping the next generation of personalization through transformer-based models that bring more dynamic, context-aware recommendations to millions of listeners. You’ll collaborate closely with teams across Personalization, Experience, and Music to evolve how discovery works across Spotify. What You'll Do: Lead and support a team of Backend, Data, and Machine Learning Engineers building recommendation systems used by hundreds of millions of listeners Set the technical direction for recommendation models across surfaces like Home and Now Playing Guide the development of candidate generation, ranking, and embedding systems that improve music discovery Partner with ML platform and infrastructure teams to evolve and scale generative recommendation models Work closely with Product, Data Science, and Design to define success metrics and turn insights into meaningful product i...