# Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Messaging Platform

Spotify’s Subscriptions Mission focuses on converting listeners into lifelong subscribers by delivering seamless, valuable experiences across pricing, packaging, and customer journeys. We build the systems and tools that power acquisition, retention, and overall subscription growth at scale. The Messaging Platform powers Spotify’s communications to over a billion users - from push notifications to emails and in-app messages that connect listeners to the content they love. Within this space, the Paloma squad focuses on message optimization: deciding which message reaches which user, through which channel, and at what moment. We’re evolving how messaging works at Spotify - moving from short-term optimization toward systems that understand long-term user journeys. By combining reinforcement learning approaches with deeper domain signals, we’re expanding how machine learning shapes the entire messaging funnel. What You'll Do Design, build, and ship machine learning models that optimize messaging across push, email, and in-app channels Plan and run A/B experiments in a multi-objective environment, balancing conversion, engagement, retention, and reachability Contribute to reinforcement

- **Id**: 118102
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/spotify-senior-machine-learning-engineer-messaging-platform-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom, Stockholm, Sweden
- **Countries**: GB, SE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-08T14:29:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T22:48:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 183
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2824
- **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**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 122000
- **Max usd**: 217000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 49

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Ray** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 182

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-05-08T14:29:46Z

## 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**: 9
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.335
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 182
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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