Senior Engineering Manager, Applied AI & Audio

The role

You will lead the Sound Solutions team to use AI for adapting music for creative use. You will manage Machine Learning and Software Engineers to ship and scale AI-powered music adaptation capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead the team in taking AI models from training to live production.
• Own the team's technical direction and prioritization.
• Shape the team's model strategy by evaluating models, open-source solutions, and vendor offerings.
• Build a high-ownership team culture through mentorship and honest feedback.
• Partner with data, MLOps, and product engineering teams to integrate AI into the creator experience.

Required qualifications

• Significant engineering leadership experience managing and growing teams across ML and software engineering.
• Track record of shipping ML systems into production.
• Solid practical understanding of the ML lifecycle including training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Understanding of the current AI landscape including fine-tuning on domain-specific data.
• Experience building and shipping production software, ideally ML-powered services.
• Experience scaling an ML-powered product or tooling.
• Ability to set clear direction and keep a team focused.
• Product mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience with audio, music, or related domains

About the company

Epidemic Sound is an industry leader with 400+ innovators blending tech with soundtracking. They have offices in Stockholm, London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Oslo, and Seoul.