Apple · 14 hours ago
Engineering Program Manager, AI/ML, Apple Services Engineering (ASE)
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$135K/yr - $246K/yr
5+ years expApple is a leading technology company known for its innovative products and services. The Engineering Program Manager for AI/ML will drive the end-to-end delivery of large-scale Machine Learning and Generative AI programs, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product roadmaps and manage feature development processes.
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Responsibilities
Drive technical scoping, effort estimation, and resource allocation discussions with engineering, research, and cross-functional teams to ensure realistic and achievable roadmaps
Translate high-level GenAI/ML product vision and research goals into detailed, actionable engineering roadmaps and technical execution plans. This involves defining technical scope, breaking down complex initiatives into manageable phases, identifying key engineering deliverables, and ensuring alignment across ML Engineering, Data Engineering, and Platform teams
Drive the end-to-end engineering execution of GenAI/ML initiatives. This includes orchestrating efforts across specialized engineering teams (ML, Data, Platform, SRE), tracking progress against technical milestones, facilitating technical decision-making, coordinating launch and managing post launch improvements
Proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate technical blockers, architectural challenges, and inter-team dependencies inherent in GenAI/ML development (e.g., data quality issues, compute resource contention, model scalability, integration complexities). Develop contingency plans and drive resolution to keep engineering programs on track
Facilitate clear, concise, and effective technical communication across diverse engineering teams and with relevant stakeholders (Product, Research, Leadership). Articulate complex engineering progress, technical trade-offs, challenges, and proposed solutions, ensuring alignment, informed decision-making, and transparency throughout the program lifecycle
Qualification
Required
5+ years of program management experience, including experience taking features through the complete software development life cycle with multiple stakeholders
Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end Machine Learning projects. This includes understanding the full ML lifecycle from data acquisition, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement
BA/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar field or relevant industry experience
Preferred
Experience to execute cross-functional and cross-organization project management - ability to work across diverse teams, navigate organizational landscape, build relationships and drive project delivery
Ability to understand and extract action plans from complex technical discussions & translate into succinct messaging for multi-functional and executive status reporting
Built global products by collaborating across Product, Engineering, Data Sciences, Analytics, Design and other key partners
Consistent track record of shipping complex customer-facing and backend engineering projects under demanding timelines
Strong facilitation skills (requirements sessions, design meetings, progress and status meetings)
Best-in-class communication and presentation skills (written & verbal) to all levels of an organization
Be able to work with ambiguity, organize & create order
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Tim Cook
CEO
Craig Federighi
SVP, Software Engineering
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