# Senior Applied 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. Within Personalization, the Speak Team owns the development of Spotify's state-of-the-art speech models, contributing to speech recognition, speech synthesis, and speech-to-speech models. We craft voice models that match human-level emotional expressiveness, so we can deeply engage our listeners and support creators at scale. Our groundbreaking work on speech synthesis relies on state-of-the-art deep learning methods and evaluation techniques, highly efficient data processing and model serving, and capturing audio of outstanding quality from our voice talent pool. We're looking for a senior applied research scientist with experience in developing novel ML techniques and architectures and with a strong interest in working across a full production pipeline to produce state-of-the-art generative conver

- **Id**: 1098452
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/spotify-senior-applied-research-scientist-personalization>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom, Stockholm, Sweden
- **Countries**: GB, SE
- **Hiring countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T17:45:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T19:47:15Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 50
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3123
- **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**: 110000
- **Max usd**: 197000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_cell
- **Sample n**: 54

## Technologies

- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Diffusion Models** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Speech Recognition** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T20:16:20Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 42
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.559
- **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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