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Research Scientist - Personalization

Spotify

Research Scientist - Personalization

Spotify

London

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On-site

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Full-time

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1mo ago

Benefits & Perks

Competitive salary and equity package

401(k) matching

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Team events and activities

Flexible work arrangements

Equity

Healthcare

Flexible Hours

Required Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

Python

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. You will join a team of researchers whose focus is on enhancing the Spotify experience by researching, developing, and integrating state-of-the-art generative AI technologies into our search and recommender systems, and unlock new interactive experiences.

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.

Areas of expertise: Information Retrieval, Recommendation System, Language Technologies, Foundational Models, Generative AI Technologies, and Machine Learning

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About Spotify

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Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded in April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. As of December 2025, it was one of the largest providers of music streaming services, with over 751 million monthly active users comprising 290 million paying subscribers.

5,001-10,000

Employees

Stockholm

Headquarters

Reviews

4.0

25 reviews

Work Life Balance

4.2

Compensation

3.8

Culture

4.0

Career

3.9

Management

3.7

72%

Recommend to a Friend

Pros

Great company culture and amazing people

Supportive management and professional growth opportunities

Creative and innovative work environment

Cons

Job insecurity and recent layoffs

Management inconsistency and lack of transparency

Limited internal career mobility

Salary Ranges

3 data points

Junior/L3

Senior/L5

Staff/L6

Junior/L3 · Associate Data Scientist

0 reports

$142,458

total / year

Base

-

Stock

-

Bonus

-

$121,089

$163,827

Interview Experience

5 interviews

Difficulty

3.0

/ 5

Duration

14-28 weeks

Offer Rate

40%

Experience

Positive 40%

Neutral 60%

Negative 0%

Interview Process

1

Application Review

2

Recruiter Screen

3

Technical Phone Screen

4

Online Coding Round

5

Onsite/Virtual Interviews

6

Offer

Common Questions

Coding/Algorithm

Technical Knowledge

Behavioral/STAR

System Design

Culture Fit