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Research Scientist: PhD – Summer Internship – New York
Spotify
New York, NY, United States
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Research Scientist Intern
We are looking for Research Scientist Interns to #JoinTheBand and help drive a data-first culture across Spotify. You’ll focused on how people, data and machines talk to each other about music, with applications in speech, NLU and music recommendations.
What you’ll do:
• You will apply your scientific knowledge and research skills to design studies into people’s reactions to Machine Learning-based interactions.
• You will design and plan studies, analyze product engagement data, and gather large-scale NLU data sets that cover those aspects you establish as impactful on people’s experience.
• You will work in collaboration with other scientists, user researchers, analysts and engineers across Spotify to design creative solutions to challenging problems.
• You will work on projects that cut across Spotify’s organization, including areas such as product, marketing, and content.
• You will have product impact, while working on and further develop a long-term research roadmap.
Who you are:
• You have a PhD in human-computer interaction, psychology, NLU, statistics, IR/search/agents, data science or related area.
• You have publications in communities such as WWW, CHI, UbiComp, SIGIR, Interspeech, HRI, CSCW, RecSys, or related.
• You are intrigued by how interaction design, data collection strategies, and people’s perceptions affect Machine Learning outcomes.
• You have a demonstrated interest in speech/natural language, personalized recommendations, crowdsourcing, diversity in AI – and music.
• You are a creative problem-solver who is passionate about digging into complex problems and devising new approaches to reach results.
• You have experience with the complexities of real-world data, and understand the value of both in-depth, qualitative and web-scale, quantitative data working together to create a deep understanding of people’s interaction with technology.
The Intern Gig:
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 10 weeks this summer and start in the beginning of June.
The deadline to apply is December 15th, 2017 at 11:59 PM, ET. You can expect the following application timeline:
• Late December, 2018 – Mid January, 2018:Application Review
• Late January, 2018 – Late February, 2018:Interviews
• February, 2018 – March/April, 2018:Offers given out
• June/July, 2018: Intern program start
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users and our creators. This is something we value deeply and we encourage everyone to come be a part of changing the way the world listens to music.