Director of ML Engineering
Core
Lead the Conversation Product Area to build a shared Agent Engine, evaluation infrastructure, and voice platforms (Speak) powering Spotify's agentic consumer features like Chat and AI DJ.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Platform/Infrastructure)
Builds
Shared Agent Engine harness, evaluation infrastructure, Search Brain, and first-party voice infrastructure (Speak).
Domain
Music streaming, AI agents, LLM orchestration, speech/voice ML.
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure | product features
Required skills
Large engineering org management, platform consolidation/migration leadership, LLM-based agent systems and orchestration, evaluation/eval-infrastructure design, large-scale retrieval or search systems, speech/voice ML systems and production voice infrastructure, managing managers, restructuring teams for agility.
Preferred skills
Experience with AI-assisted development practices, building nimble teams in fast-changing environments.
Technologies
LLMs, Agent Orchestration, Search Systems, Speech/voice ML stacks.
Responsibilities
Own engineering execution and technical direction for the Conversation Product Area; co-lead the Product Area in a paired product/engineering model; manage a team of ~70 engineers and the EM layer; drive migration of agentic infrastructure onto the shared Agent Engine; define technical strategy for the Speak voice platform; build discipline for evaluation judges and datasets; enforce engineering quality standards for AI-assisted development; represent the PA in company-wide architecture and steerco conversations.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical authority
