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. The Content Platform team powers the full lifecycle of content across music, podcasts, audiobooks, and emerging formats at Spotify. We ensure that everything from licensed catalog to user-generated content is understood, trusted, safe, and high quality for millions of listeners worldwide. Our systems are responsible for how content is ingested, understood, enriched, governed, and distributed across the platform. As the scale and diversity of content continue to grow—driven by advances in AI, new creation tools, and emerging content formats—we’re investing in intelligent systems that can understand, evaluate, manage, and route content reliably at global scale. We’re hiring Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineers to build and scale foundational ML systems that power content understanding, safety, policy enforcement, and decisioning across Spotify. Depending on your experience and interests, you may focus on areas ranging from multimodal content understanding and platform-level ML systems to safety, risk detection, policy enforcement, and compliance. You’ll help shape the architecture and technical strategy behind how Spotify understands and makes decisions about content at global scale. This work is foundational to delivering safe, high-quality experiences for listeners and creators while enabling new ways for people to interact with content across Spotify. What Yo
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety
Market pay estimate
$228,066–$276,000 / year for comparable Machine Learning Engineer roles in United States. Not employer-provided.
Role overview
Job description
Design, build, and ship production-grade machine learning systems that power content safety and policy enforcement at Spotify scale
Own and lead key technical initiatives across detection, classification, and policy evaluation systems
Develop and maintain ML models for content moderation, including multimodal and LLM-based systems
Build robust evaluation frameworks, including standardized datasets, offline and online metrics, and continuous improvement loops
Drive experimentation to improve model performance, reliability, and fairness in safety-critical systems
Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners in Trust & Safety, Legal, and Public Affairs to align on policy and enforcement needs
Provide technical leadership within the team, mentoring engineers and contributing to ML strategy and prioritization
Represent technical decisions and trade-offs in stakeholder discussions and influence product direction
You have solid experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments at scale
You are experienced with training, evaluating, and maintaining ML models using modern frameworks such as PyTorch
You have a deep understanding of machine learning evaluation, including dataset design, metrics, and continuous improvement systems
You know how to design systems that balance performance, reliability, and real-world impact in high-stakes domains
You care about building safe, responsible, and user-centric ML systems
You are comfortable working across disciplines, partnering with legal, policy, and product stakeholders
You have experience leading technical projects and influencing direction within a team or product area
You have experience with distributed systems or backend technologies (e.g., Scala)
This role is based in New York
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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