2024 Summer Internship, Tech Research Scientist (London)

Spotify is looking for enthusiastic students with a passion for streaming audio and an ambition to go far. This isn't just any internship! Our paid internship program will give you the chance to gain in-depth knowledge of what it's like to be a Spotify employee as well as get the opportunity to see the technology side of a fast growing company! Our summer internships will last for approximately 10 weeks this summer and start in the beginning of June.
We are looking for a Research Scientist intern in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, economics, foundational modeling, LLMs, recommender systems, speech processing, natural language processing, or information retrieval. We are a distributed team located in the US (East Coast) and Europe working on a diverse range of research topics and applied problems. We use a variety of approaches and methods to answer research questions related to how people interact and engage with Spotify. We work on a broad range of Spotify features – AI DJ, personalized playlists such as Discover Weekly and Daily Mix, the Homepage, Search and other AI systems powering recommendations of music, podcasts, and audiobooks to 180 million users with billions of interactions.

What You'll Do

• Be part of an interdisciplinary team passionate about making every user interaction with Spotify outstanding through personalization and discovery, and in the process pushing innovation and contributing to the wider research community by publishing papers
• Apply your scientific knowledge to application-oriented problems in artificial intelligence, economics, machine learning, search and recommendation, speech processing, and natural language processing, combining insights fom your expertise with those of our diverse team of research scientists
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional team working in collaboration with other scientists, engineers, product managers, designers, user researchers, and analysts across Spotify to craft creative solutions to challenging problems
• Help to develop thoughtful, efficient, and intuitive new ways to search, explore and discover music, podcasts, and audiobooks

Who You Are

• You are pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Information Science, Data Science, Statistics, Economics or related areas with a strong computational focus
• You currently have valid work authorization to work in the country in which this role is based that will extend from June to August 2024
• Plus if you have publications in communities such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EC, AAAI, RecSys, The Web Conference, ACL, SIGIR, WSDM, KDD, Interspeech, or related venues
• You are a creative problem-solver who is passionate about digging into challenging problems and devising innovative ways to reach results
• You have experience with the complexities of modeling and analyzing real-world data

Where You'll Be

• This role will require you to work out of our London Office
• Working hours? We operate within GMT for collaboration

Our paid summer internships last for approximately 10 weeks and start at the beginning of June. The last day to apply is March 15th 2024 at 9 AM ET. 
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.