# Research Scientist - Personalization

The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Blend to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them.Spotify’s Personalization organization builds the technology that helps millions of listeners discover what they love. Within this space, our research team focuses on advancing the state of the art in machine learning and AI to shape the future of personalization. We explore new approaches, challenge existing assumptions, and contribute to the broader research community while influencing long-term product direction. What You'll Do Conduct original research in machine learning and AI, with a focus on large-scale foundation models, generative AI, and post-training methods, including reinforcement learning. Develop novel methodologies, models, and evaluation frameworks to advance personalization systems. Design and execute rigorous experiments to explore new ideas and validate research hypotheses. Contr

- **Id**: 1098453
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/spotify-research-scientist-personalization-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T17:37:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T09:26:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 49
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2721
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Music Industry, Podcasting, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 57
- **Name**: Spotify
- **Domain**: spotify.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/spotify>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 13
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.615
- **Repost share**: 0.077
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 156000
- **Max usd**: 347000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 4425

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 49

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T20:16:20Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-15T21:06:08Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-19T18:37:39Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 95 · green card filings: 51; Filings 12m: 95

## Liveness

- **Score**: 37
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.493
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 49
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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