About the Role
Spotify is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the technical architecture of its Agent Engine, a shared runtime that powers agent-based experiences across the platform. This role involves guiding the transition of existing agent-powered features into a unified system, balancing speed, reliability, and real-world product constraints.
What You'll Do
- Lead the technical architecture of Spotify’s Agent Engine, the shared runtime that powers agent-based experiences across the platform.
- Guide the transition of existing agent-powered features into a unified system, balancing speed, reliability, and real-world product constraints.
- Design how internal systems can be exposed as agent capabilities, enabling seamless integration across recommendations, search, catalog, and more.
- Build and improve evaluation systems that help teams measure quality, reliability, and user impact with confidence.
- Partner with research and machine learning teams to define what belongs in system design versus model capabilities.
- Explore and prototype new approaches to agent-based systems, and bring successful ideas into production at scale.
- Support best practices in building production-ready AI systems, including experimentation, observability, and performance optimization.
- Contribute to technical standards that help teams move faster while maintaining security and reliability.
- Stay connected to advances in the AI and machine learning community, and apply relevant ideas to Spotify’s products.