Machine Learning Engineering Manager - Music
Spotify · New York City, NY · Engineering
manager
software engineering
Engineering Manager
hybrid
· Posted Apr 24, 2026
$184,050 – $262,928
USD per year
About this role
Spotify is hiring a manager-level Engineering Manager in the software engineering function based in New York City, NY. The posting calls out experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, LLMs, Distributed Systems. Compensation is listed at $184,050–$262,928 per year.
- Role
- Engineering Manager
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- manager
- Track
- hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- New York City, NY
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Apr 24, 2026
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Job description
from Spotify careersWe are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Research Engineering team in our Artist-First AI Music Lab. In this role, you will be a key driver of technical excellence, infrastructure, and deployment of state-of-the-art machine learning models.
You will manage a team of research engineers working at the intersection of deep learning research and large-scale software engineering. You will own the engineering roadmap, ensuring our research codebases support rapid experimentation, our training pipelines are efficient and reproducible, and our breakthroughs successfully transition from experimental prototypes into production features used by hundreds of millions of listeners.Our lab pioneers and advances state-of-the-art generative technologies for music to create new experiences for fans and artists. We build entirely new ways of listening that center and celebrate artists and creatives.
Our work is guided by four core principles:
- Partnerships with record labels, distributors, and music publishers: we develop new products through upfront collaboration
- Choice in participation: artists and rightsholders decide if and how they engage with generative AI tools
- Fair compensation and new revenue: we create new revenue streams while ensuring proper credit and compensation
- Artist-fan connection: our tools are designed to support creativity and deepen the relationship between artists and fans
This is an excerpt. Read the full job description on Spotify careers →