Apple · 19 hours ago
Software Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Platform Technologies
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$217K/yr - $375K/yr
5+ years expApple is a leading technology company seeking a Test Infrastructure Manager to lead the transformation of their testing and validation infrastructure. The role involves architecting comprehensive developer platforms and driving cross-functional collaboration to enhance engineering velocity and production reliability across the organization.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
Identify and articulate infrastructure problems that impact developer productivity and production risk, building cross-functional alignment around the importance and urgency of solving them
Lead cross-team collaboration with internal framework teams, domain search engineers, eval engineers, product engineering, production operations, SRE, and security to understand diverse needs and ensure infrastructure evolves to meet them
Build shared vision and roadmaps with stakeholders that have competing priorities, driving consensus on direction, trade-offs, and sequencing
Champion organizational adoption of new infrastructure capabilities, practices, and tools—overcoming resistance, communicating value, and enabling teams to realize benefits
Establish feedback loops from production by working with production operations and SRE to understand real-world failures, validate that infrastructure improvements reduce production risk, and drive continuous learning and refinement
Mentor and develop testing and infrastructure engineers and leaders, fostering technical excellence and a shared passion for enabling developer productivity
Reliability & Operational Excellence
Define and drive technical vision for developer platforms and infrastructure that supports Apple's product portfolio at scale, meeting the needs of diverse developer communities
Architect infrastructure that balances critical polarities: flexibility vs. standardization, speed vs. stability, centralized control vs. distributed autonomy—making thoughtful trade-off decisions
Design and implement scalable validation infrastructure spanning unit testing, integration testing, system testing, performance validation, and compliance across diverse development environments
Improve environment reliability by reducing flakiness, improving test infrastructure stability, and ensuring consistent, reproducible validation environments across teams
Identify and resolve systemic infrastructure challenges—including bottlenecks in validation workflows, unreliable test environments, slow feedback loops, and gaps in infrastructure tooling
Developer Platforms
Architect testing platforms and tooling to enable developers to efficiently author validation, execute tests, and gain rapid feedback on their changes
Build self-service platforms that empower diverse developer communities to operate independently while maintaining governance, consistency, and best practices
Design comprehensive metrics and reporting infrastructure that provides actionable visibility into coverage effectiveness, validation gaps, and production risk—enabling teams to make informed decisions
Champion developer-focused validation practices across diverse communities, ensuring infrastructure is intuitive, accessible, and enables engineers at all levels to write effective validation
Reduce friction in developer workflows by removing bottlenecks, providing intuitive tooling, and eliminating unnecessary complexity in the validation process
Collaborate on security and compliance validation requirements, ensuring products meet Apple's rigorous security and privacy standards
Qualification
Required
Demonstrated ability to identify cross-functional problems, align stakeholders with different priorities around a shared vision, and execute roadmaps to solve them. Be ready to discuss a specific scenario: what problem did you identify, how did you engage stakeholders, what roadmap did you create, and what trade-offs did you navigate?
Strong interpersonal and communication skills—proven ability to influence across teams, build consensus among diverse stakeholders, and communicate technical concepts clearly to audiences with varying levels of technical depth
Demonstrated leadership managing technical teams, with a track record of building and developing talent. Comfortable managing managers and individual contributors, fostering technical excellence, and scaling your impact through others
Significant management experience (minimum 5+ years) with responsibility for building and scaling technical teams. Comfortable managing managers and individual contributors, with a proven track record of developing manager-level talent and scaling your impact through others
Preferred
Deep expertise in root cause analysis and systemic problem-solving, with a proven ability to implement strategic processes and scalable, long-term solutions. Experience leading blameless post-mortems, incident reviews, or similar retrospective processes to drive organizational learning and prevent recurrence. Track record of turning infrastructure failures into improvements that measurably increase engineering velocity and reliability
Success leading organizational change—identifying cross-functional problems, building shared vision around solutions, and executing multi-quarter roadmaps that drive meaningful, measurable impact
Track record of driving adoption of engineering best practices across large organizations—examples might include build system improvements, release process optimization, deployment automation, infrastructure migrations (e.g., datacenter moves), or related initiatives. Demonstrated ability to drive organizational change and overcome resistance to new practices
Experience collaborating with diverse stakeholder groups—product engineering, operations/SRE, infrastructure teams, and specialized developer communities—to understand infrastructure needs and drive adoption of new tools and practices
Strong background in test environment provisioning, infrastructure reliability patterns, and understanding how production patterns inform development infrastructure decisions
Experience with infrastructure-as-code, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) for building scalable infrastructure
Demonstrated mastery of metrics, reporting, and analytics infrastructure that provides visibility into coverage effectiveness, infrastructure health, and risk assessment
Extensive experience designing and implementing comprehensive developer platforms focused on reliability, performance, and enabling rapid feedback—including testing infrastructure, validation tooling, and development environment design. Understanding of how to balance reliability with velocity
Proven expertise in building self-service platforms that empower diverse developer communities to operate independently while maintaining governance, consistency, and best practices
Experience with advanced validation and infrastructure techniques such as property-based testing, mutation testing, chaos engineering, continuous fuzzing, or production observability patterns
Passion for developer experience and a track record of building platforms that make developers more productive, reduce friction, and are intuitive and effective for engineers at all levels
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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CEO
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