Engineering Manager

About the role

As an Engineering Manager on the Applied Machine Learning team, you will lead a team of software engineers building tools and platforms at scale that power Apple's enterprise GenAI efforts. You'll be responsible for the technical execution and delivery of a GenAI platform with distributed compute, storage, ingestion, and inference. You'll be working with a team of software engineers and machine learning engineers to build RAG and Agentic platform components. If you have a deep understanding of distributed systems, generative AI, a strong engineering background, and leadership experience, then this role may be a great one for you! In this role, you will lead and mentor forward-thinking engineers and will own related activities and interactions with teams across Apple. You will work cross-functionally with key internal partners, researchers, product teams, and platform engineers to develop and deliver our products.

Responsibilities

• Actively manage the performance of the team reporting to you and take responsibility for driving its outcome.
• Build scalable GenAI platforms and applications.
• Ensure products meet Apple's standards for performance, reliability, scalability, privacy, and user experience
• Guide development of APIs and frameworks for agentic workflows and/or complex multi-step ML systems
• Collaborate optimally with partner/product teams to set the goals, expectations, and roadmaps for their teams.
• Communicate technical details and roadmaps for diverse audiences including engineering partners, product management teams, and executives across Apple.

Requirements

• Track record of leading teams and delivering complex AI projects from conception to production
• Strong communication skills
• Understanding of LLM inference and deployment
• Understanding of RAG and Agentic systems
• Past experience leading a scalable platform team
• 10+ years of experience working on distributed systems
• 6+ years of experience in a management or leadership role
• Deep understanding of GenAI fundamentals
• Deep understanding of Java, C, C++, or similar programming language
• Deep understanding of distributed systems like Flink, Spark, NoSQL, etc.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Pay & Benefits
• Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Additional Information

AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) is IS&T's engine for AI-powered innovation. The team brings together data, application development, and machine learning - including generative AI - along with data services and customer success functions, to help IS&T build solutions more efficiently and streamline the adoption and embedding of generative AI across Apple.

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