Data Entry Question and Answer

$150 $49

Remote Question and Answer

$150 $49

Virtual Assistant Question and Answer

$150 $49

Content Moderator Question and Answer

$150 $49

Customer Service Question and Answer

$150 $49

Video Game Tester Question and Answer

$150 $49

2025 Summer Internship, Research Scientist - PhD (New York City) ID - 13176

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, economics, foundational modeling, LLMs, recommender systems, speech processing, natural language processing, or information retrieval. Our teams are based 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 focused on making every user interaction with Spotify amazing 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 from 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 design 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 PhD in Computer Science, Information Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related areas with a strong computational focus.
  • You have a graduation year date of 2025 or 2026.
  • You currently have valid work authorization to work in the country in which this role is based that will extend from June to August 2025.
  • You are available from June 9th to August 15th 2025 to participate in the summer internship.
  • You have publications in communities such as RecSys, SIGIR, The Web Conference, WSDM, KDD, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ECIR, AAAI, ACL, or related venues (preferred)
  • You know how to be a creative problem-solver who is passionate about digging into complex problems and devising innovative ways to reach results (preferred)
  • You are experienced with the complexities of modeling and analyzing real-world data (preferred)

Where You'll Be

The United States hourly rate for this position is $55 USD and is overtime eligible. These rates may be modified in the future. The role is eligible for select benefits such as Paid Public Holidays, and Learning and Development Trainings.

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 12 PM 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.

Back to blog

Yelp Question and Answer

$150 $49

Amzon Question and Answer

$150 $49

Netflix Question and Answer

$150 $49

Disney Question and Answer

$150 $49

Apple Question and Answer

$150 $49

Southwest Airline Q & A

$150 $49

Delta Airline Q & A

$150 $49

Costco Question and Answer

$150 $49

American Question and Answer

$150 $49

Walmart Question and Answer

$150 $49

Tesla Question and Answer

$150 $49

Google Question and Answer

$150 $49

Common Interview Questions And Answers

1. HOW DO YOU PLAN YOUR DAY?

This is what this question poses: When do you focus and start working seriously? What are the hours you work optimally? Are you a night owl? A morning bird? Remote teams can be made up of people working on different shifts and around the world, so you won't necessarily be stuck in the 9-5 schedule if it's not for you...

2. HOW DO YOU USE THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS?

When you're working on a remote team, there's no way to chat in the hallway between meetings or catch up on the latest project during an office carpool. Therefore, virtual communication will be absolutely essential to get your work done...

3. WHAT IS "WORKING REMOTE" REALLY FOR YOU?

Many people want to work remotely because of the flexibility it allows. You can work anywhere and at any time of the day...

4. WHAT DO YOU NEED IN YOUR PHYSICAL WORKSPACE TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WORK?

With this question, companies are looking to see what equipment they may need to provide you with and to verify how aware you are of what remote working could mean for you physically and logistically...

5. HOW DO YOU PROCESS INFORMATION?

Several years ago, I was working in a team to plan a big event. My supervisor made us all work as a team before the big day. One of our activities has been to find out how each of us processes information...

6. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE CALENDAR AND THE PROGRAM? WHICH APPLICATIONS / SYSTEM DO YOU USE?

Or you may receive even more specific questions, such as: What's on your calendar? Do you plan blocks of time to do certain types of work? Do you have an open calendar that everyone can see?...

7. HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE FILES, LINKS, AND TABS ON YOUR COMPUTER?

Just like your schedule, how you track files and other information is very important. After all, everything is digital!...

8. HOW TO PRIORITIZE WORK?

The day I watched Marie Forleo's film separating the important from the urgent, my life changed. Not all remote jobs start fast, but most of them are...

9. HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A MEETING AND PREPARE A MEETING? WHAT DO YOU SEE HAPPENING DURING THE MEETING?

Just as communication is essential when working remotely, so is organization. Because you won't have those opportunities in the elevator or a casual conversation in the lunchroom, you should take advantage of the little time you have in a video or phone conference...

10. HOW DO YOU USE TECHNOLOGY ON A DAILY BASIS, IN YOUR WORK AND FOR YOUR PLEASURE?

This is a great question because it shows your comfort level with technology, which is very important for a remote worker because you will be working with technology over time...

Related Posts