Connectionists: Research Internships at Spotify Research, London

[Rishabh Mehrotra]

*TL;DR:* Research internships at Spotify Research in London. Deadline: 3rd
Feb. Contact: rishabhm at spotify.com or mounial at spotify.com for details.


We are looking for Research Scientist Interns for Spotify’s User Engagement
research lab based in London to work on a number of interesting problems in
machine learning, deep learning, recommendations, user modeling/engagement,
and large scale experimentation. We are part of a high impact team that is
building the next generation technologies aimed at making every user
interaction with Spotify amazing through personalization and discovery.

We’re looking for talented research interns who have applied experience in
the field of Machine Learning, Machine Intelligence, User Behavioral
Analysis, IR, NLP, and more broadly, AI.

The User Engagement team works on some of Spotify’s key features –
personalized playlists such as Discover Weekly and Daily Mix, the Home
view, and Search. Our projects are intended to take on some of technology’s
greatest challenges and make impact on millions of users. Some of the
challenges our team is working on include developing terascale solutions
for understanding and interpreting user interaction signals, understanding
user success with short term & long term metrics, developing
algorithmically curated playlists and other challenges in machine learning
and user understanding.


*Who you are*

   - You are currently enrolled in a PhD programme in Computer Science,
   Data Science, or related areas with a strong computational focus.
   - You will have a strong knowledge of data mining, machine learning or
   evaluation with experience in machine learning, deep learning, optimization
   techniques, information retrieval and/or natural language understanding.
   - You have publications in communities such as WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, RecSys,
   CHI, KDD, AAAI, ACL, NIPS, ICML, UbiComp, or related, in the following
   topics:
      - user understanding: music cognition, metrics and evaluation, large
      scale experimentation
      - matching: information retrieval, recommendation, machine learning
   - You possess solid hands-on skills in sourcing, cleaning, manipulating,
   analyzing, visualizing and modeling of real data.


*Application Deadline:* 3rd Feb 2018
*Applications: *
https://www.spotifyjobs.com/job/research-scientist-intern-phd-ocwu6fws/
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/493376017/

*Contact:*
Feel free to get in touch with Mounia Lalmas (mounial at spotify.com) or
Rishabh Mehrotra (rishabhm at spotify.com) for details/questions.

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Rishabh.
Web: www.rishabhmehrotra.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/erishabh
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