Senior Applied Research Scientist - Personalization
Spotify· Data and Analytics – Personalization
New York City$169.2k - $241.7kPermanentPosted 4w ago
About the role
Senior applied research scientist focused on development of state-of-the-art speech models within Spotify's Speak Team, driving speech synthesis, recognition, and speech-to-speech models at scale. Collaborates across production pipelines and with engineering/data teams to turn research ideas into scalable products.
Responsibilities
- Develop and experiment with new methods for speech synthesis and speech recognition, along with end-to-end approaches, building on the latest research and ideas.
- Work towards the expansion of our speech use-cases targeting different markets and products.
- Be part of a highly motivated research team dedicated to building and creating models at scale to power the Spotify platform.
- Champion best practices for research and development, sharing your knowledge and experience with other researchers within Speak.
- Collaborate with our engineering and data teams on ideas requiring new infrastructure or new high-quality data, as well as to help improve our speech recognition and speech synthesis pipelines, and help turn proven ideas into scalable products.
Qualifications
- PhD degree in ML or equivalent professional experience (strong ML background)
- Experience with transformers, GANs, diffusion models, flow matching, VAEs, audio codecs
- Experience in developing generative models for speech synthesis, speech recognition, audio/music, NLP, or computer vision
- Strong Python experience, particularly PyTorch
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience conducting high-quality research in academic or professional settings
Skills
Required:ML fundamentals (transformers, GANs, diffusion models, VAEs, etc.)Generative models for speech and audioPython
Benefits
- health insurance
- six month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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