Senior Applied Research Scientist - Personalization

Spotify
London, Stockholm
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningEducation: phdSkills: ["Communication"]

Build and advance Spotify’s state-of-the-art speech technology for personalization, focusing on speech synthesis and speech recognition. You’ll develop and experiment with novel ML methods and end-to-end approaches, expand speech use-cases across markets and products, and collaborate with engineering and data teams to improve model quality and scalable production pipelines. You’ll also share best practices with researchers and help push the frontier of speech-to-speech performance.

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Senior Applied Research Scientist - Personalization

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Job Summary

Build and advance Spotify’s state-of-the-art speech technology for personalization, focusing on speech synthesis and speech recognition. You’ll develop and experiment with novel ML methods and end-to-end approaches, expand speech use-cases across markets and products, and collaborate with engineering and data teams to improve model quality and scalable production pipelines. You’ll also share best practices with researchers and help push the frontier of speech-to-speech performance.
Location: London, Stockholm
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop and experiment with new methods for speech synthesis and speech recognition using end-to-end approaches built on the latest research.
  • •Expand speech use-cases across different markets and products.
  • •Collaborate with engineering and data teams to improve speech recognition and speech synthesis pipelines and production scalability.
  • •Help build and create models at scale to power Spotify’s platform.
  • •Champion R&D best practices and share knowledge with other researchers.

Key Requirements

  • •PhD degree on top of professional experience, with a strong background in ML.
  • •Experience developing generative models for speech synthesis, speech recognition, audio/music, NLP, or computer vision.
  • •Hands-on experience with transformers, GANs, diffusion models, flow matching, VAEs, and audio codecs.
  • •Strong Python skills, particularly PyTorch.
  • •Experience conducting high-quality research in an academic or professional setting and strong communication skills.
Experience:Machine learningSpeech synthesisSpeech recognitionGenerative modelsNatural language processingComputer visionDeep learning
Education:PhD / Doctorate
Skills:Communication
Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchTransformersGANsDiffusion modelsFlow matchingVAEsAudio codecsSpeech recognitionSpeech synthesis

Company Brief

Spotify
Provides a music, podcast and audio streaming service offering on-demand access to millions of tracks and podcasts, personalized recommendations, and advertising and subscription-based tiers for listeners and creators worldwide.
Industry: Streaming Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Founded: 2006
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