2025 Summer Internship, Tech Research Scientist - PhD (London)

Posted:
1/12/2025, 11:37:04 PM

Location(s):
England, United Kingdom ⋅ London, England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Internship

Field(s):
AI & Machine Learning ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
On-site

Pay:
$51/hr or $106,080 total comp

Spotify is looking for enthusiastic students/recent graduates with a passion for music 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,  generative AI, large language models (LLMs), natural language processing, recommender systems, or information retrieval. Our teams are based in Europe and the US (East coast) 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.
Our paid summer internships last for approximately 10 weeks and start at the beginning of June. The last day to apply is February 6th 2025 at 5 PM GMT.

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.