Senior Engineering Manager - ML

Spotify Spotify · Consumer · New York, NY +2 · Personalization

Senior Engineering Manager for Agentic Systems at Spotify, focusing on the architecture and evolution of agent-powered features. This role involves production systems engineering, LLM infrastructure, evaluation science, and applied research, with significant architectural authority to define technical strategy for building, evaluating, and scaling agents, and consolidating implementations onto a single engine.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the technical strategy for how Spotify's agents are built, evaluated, and scaled
  2. Drive the consolidation of our agent implementations onto a single engine that can power the next generation of the product
  3. Partner with a cross-functional team to evolve Spotify agent-powered features
  4. Operate fluidly across production systems engineering, LLM infrastructure, evaluation science, and applied research

Skills

Required

  • Experience managing engineering teams
  • Experience with LLM infrastructure
  • Experience with agent frameworks
  • Experience with evaluation science
  • Experience with applied research
  • Architectural design and strategy

Nice to have

  • Experience with production systems engineering
  • Experience with agentic reasoning

What the JD emphasized

  • architectural authority
  • evaluation science
  • applied research
  • LLM infrastructure
  • agent frameworks
  • LLM orchestration
  • agentic reasoning

Other signals

  • agent frameworks
  • LLM orchestration
  • agentic reasoning
  • unified, agent-powered platform
  • evaluation science