Machine Learning Engineering Manager – Music

Spotify

Engineering Manager leading Research Engineering team in Artist-First AI Music Lab at Spotify. Driving technical excellence, infrastructure, and deployment of machine learning models.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $184,050 - $262,928 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsPyTorchTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and support a team of research engineers and machine learning engineers, helping them grow and do their best work
Define and deliver the engineering roadmap, balancing fast experimentation with production readiness
Build and scale machine learning infrastructure, including training pipelines, experimentation systems, and shared tooling
Partner with research scientists, product managers, and platform teams to bring ideas from research into user-facing features
Improve engineering practices in a research environment, including testing, reproducibility, and deployment workflows
Support the transition of research prototypes into reliable, scalable production systems
Contribute to strategic planning and align engineering work with broader company priorities

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have experience leading or managing engineering teams, ideally in machine learning or research-focused environments
You are experienced with machine learning systems and frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
You understand distributed systems and have worked with large-scale training or compute environments
You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across research and engineering disciplines
You have partnered with product and cross-functional teams to deliver meaningful outcomes
You have delivered complex technical projects and can balance experimentation with reliability
You care about building inclusive teams and supporting engineers at different stages of their careers
You have an interest in music technology, audio, or generative AI

Benefits

Comp & perks

health insurance
six-month paid parental leave
401(k) retirement plan
monthly meal allowance
23 paid days off
paid flexible holidays
paid sick leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningPyTorchTensorFlowJAXdistributed systemstraining pipelinesexperimentation systemsdeployment workflowsreproducibilityscalable production systems

Soft Skills

leadershipteam managementcommunicationcollaborationstrategic planninginclusivitysupporting engineersbalancing experimentation with reliabilitycross-functional teamworkdelivering complex projects