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Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety
Spotify · New York, NY · Hybrid · Active · Lever
Job facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Company | Spotify |
| Title | Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety |
| Normalized title | - |
| Department / team | Engineering / Experience |
| Location | New York, NY, United States |
| Work model | Hybrid / Hybrid |
| Employment type | Permanent |
| Salary | - |
| Status | active |
| ATS provider | Lever |
| Posted / first seen | 2026-05-06 / 2026-05-29 |
| Changed / last seen | 2026-05-29 / 2026-06-06 |
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| Company | Spotify |
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| ATS provider | Lever |
Description
We design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.
About the Team
The Policy & Safety team sits within the Content Platform domain and builds the systems that keep Spotify safe and trustworthy at scale. We own the infrastructure behind content moderation, including detection models, policy enforcement systems, compliance pipelines, and the safety-by-default platform.
Our work sits on the critical path of every new content type and product experience—from messaging and comments to collaborative and agentic features. We partner closely with Trust & Safety, Legal, and Public Affairs to ensure that as Spotify evolves, safety is built in from the start—not added later.
The United States base range for this position is $227,495–$324,993 USD, 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, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
What You Will Do
Build and scale machine learning systems for proactive content detection, classification, and pre-publish safety scanning
Design and implement policy evaluation frameworks, including standardized datasets, offline and online metrics, and continuous improvement loops
Develop multimodal models that combine text, audio, image, and video signals for safety and policy enforcement
Architect feedback loops that turn human reviewer input into structured training data for continuous model improvement
Translate regulatory requirements (e.g., precision/recall obligations, compliance reporting) into scalable ML system designs
Partner with cross-functional teams across Trust & Safety, Legal, Public Affairs, and Product to deliver safe user experiences
Drive technical direction in ambiguous problem spaces and contribute to long-term platform architecture
Mentor and support other machine learning engineers, helping raise the bar across the team
Who You Are
You have experience building and shipping production-grade machine learning systems at scale
You have strong expertise in ML evaluation, including dataset design, metrics, and model performance monitoring
You have worked with multimodal machine learning systems across text, audio, image, or video domains
You are experienced with human-in-the-loop systems, active learning, or feedback-driven model improvement
You are comfortable translating complex requirements into technical solutions, including regulatory or policy constraints
You have experience working across teams and influencing technical direction in large-scale systems
You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful decisions that balance speed, quality, and risk
You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Where You Will Be
This role is based in New York, NY
We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
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| Remote Policy | hybrid |
| Country | United States |
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| City | New York |
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| Source URL | https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/7d57d7dd-be86-452f-8ff4-9aeb67280262 |
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| First Seen At | 2026-05-29 07:00:52Z |
| Last Seen At | 2026-06-06 07:56:15Z |
| Last Checked At | 2026-06-06 07:56:15Z |
| Last Changed At | 2026-05-29 07:00:52Z |
| Inactive At | — |
| Source Posted At | 2026-05-06 12:27:43Z |
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