Spotify
New York, NY
Remote
2021-11-09
Summer Internship, Research Scientist in Algorithmic Impact & Responsibility
4.3
Students
We are looking for a Research Scientist Intern to join our growing Trust & Safety Research & Algorithmic Impact team. Spotify’s Algorithmic Responsibility effort focuses on empowering Spotify teams to assess the algorithmic impact of their products on audio culture, avoid algorithmic harms and unintended side effects, and better serve worldwide audiences and creators. As an Algorithmic Impact research intern, you will help to define, research, and communicate how we assess our impact as a platform and our recommendations across podcasts, music, and user-generated content. We help ensure that Spotify is a safe platform that’s true to our values.
Location
New York or Remote Americas
Job type
Internship
What you'll do
- Be part of an interdisciplinary team focused on understanding Spotify’s impact as a platform, and practical implementation and operationalization of Responsible ML activities such as algorithmic impact assessments.
- Contribute to the wider research community by publishing.
- Develop and iterate policy and auditing processes related to tech responsibility, algorithmic fairness and representation in the music and podcast industry.
- Apply your scientific knowledge to develop strategy around cultural equity in audio and algorithmic systems, including application-oriented problems in search, recommendation and Machine Learning settings.
- Provide consultative support, guidance on methods, and research-based input for products. For instance, this can include algorithmic audits, or analyzing & tracking global and local trends around online abuse, hate content, misinformation, etc., with a particular focus on algorithmic amplification.
- Work closely with our team and internal partners to develop, refine, and launch processes that help ensure Spotify is a safe and positive experience.
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional team working in collaboration with other scientists, engineers, product managers, policy experts, designers, user researchers, and analysts across Spotify to design creative solutions to exciting problems.
Who you are
- You are pursuing a PhD in Social Science, HCI, Computer Science, Information Science, Data Science, Technology Policy, or related areas with a strong computational focus.
- You have publications in communities such as the Web Conference, AIES, FAccT, CSCW, SIGIR, CHI, ACL, NeurIPS, WSDM, EMNLP, RecSys, KDD, ICWSM, ISMIR or related venues.
- You are curious about how interaction design, data collection strategies, and people’s perceptions affect Machine Learning outcomes.
- You are a creative problem-solver who is passionate about digging into complex problems and devising innovative ways 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 build a deep understanding of people’s interaction with technology.
- Knowledge or experience working in emerging markets is a plus.
- You have strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to provide concise advice and translate complex challenges clearly. Willing to apply academic knowledge and frameworks into product and practice.
- You must be comfortable reviewing or being exposed to sensitive content and topics, and having related conversations with teams.
Work from anywhere
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
- Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location
- Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
- Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration
Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Social events, everything from fikas and team outings to concerts, panels and talks.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Spotify Premium Account, listen without limits with a free employee account.
Swag, a Spotify welcome kit and official merch you can’t get anywhere else.
Learn about life at Spotify
The Intern experience
This is your chance to help craft the way the world listens, learn more about what we do, how we do it - and why that matters. We’re looking for hardworking students with a passion for audio experiences and an ambition to go far. This isn't just any internship, you’ll make an impact and play a real part in the success of Spotify, all over one unforgettable summer!
If that’s you, tell us who you are, what you care about, and where you want to go. Our paid summer internships last for 10-13 weeks and start at the beginning of June 2022.
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 with a community of more than 345 million users.
This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.