Senior Engineering Manager - ML at Spotify
Boston, MA
$259,000–$324,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Boston, MA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering management role focused on building and consolidating agent-powered features within a personalization platform. The work centers on LLM orchestration, agentic system architecture, and evaluation infrastructure, with direct management of a small team and broad influence over technical strategy across research, machine learning, and backend engineering. Best suited to someone with hands-on experience shipping generative AI at scale in consumer products.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 26,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 16,000–39,900
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title reads 'Senior Engineering Manager' and the JD explicitly states direct management of ~5–10 people, making 11-3021 the primary SOC. However, the posting also frames the role as a 'senior individual contributor with significant architectural authority,' creating genuine ambiguity with 15-1252; the alt SOC reflects this.
The role's seniority is assessed as Senior (not Staff or Principal) despite the broad scope: the JD describes leading one org within Personalization, which is typical Senior Engineering Manager territory at a large tech company, not org-wide technical authority.
No minimum years of experience are stated explicitly in the posting.
Generative AI shipping experience is firmly required ('significant expertise in shipping generative AI technologies'); LLM orchestration and agentic frameworks are called out as core architectural focus areas. Transformers and ML appear in a descriptive 'modern generative AI team' framing rather than a hard-gate requirements section.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): LLM orchestration.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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