Engineering Program Manager Jobs in California

Why Apple? Apple Intelligence Operations is at the center of making some of the most exciting Software features a reality for Customers. As a SWE program manager in this role, you have the opportunity to collaborate with Apple Feature teams across the company to deliver Apple Intelligence powered features across every Apple product.

To thrive in this role, you enjoy driving clarity across many stakeholders, turning requirements into clear plans, and helping teams navigate fast-moving technical infrastructure. Your curiosity and passion for learning will inspire your thought leadership to invent new processes and refine existing ones to drive bringup for new models across on-device and server infrastructure, and guide adoption of new model versions.

Description

The Model Operations team provides crucial partnership to connect the AIML team with the many feature teams across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS and services.","responsibilities":"Serve as the primary point of contact between AIML and feature teams, gathering, synthesizing, and prioritizing model requirements

Help feature teams onboard to build new features on top of Apple's on-device and server models, including guiding them through APIs, tooling, and best practices

Drive bringup and rollout of new models across Apple's on-device and server infrastructure, coordinating across AIML, infrastructure, and feature teams

Partner with feature teams to plan and execute adoption of new model versions as they're released, minimizing disruption and maximizing capability uptake

Track and clearly communicate model roadmaps, capabilities, and constraints to stakeholders across the company

Identify process and tooling gaps, and build scalable processes to streamline how feature teams engage with the Model Team

Manage cross-functional schedules, dependencies, and risks across multiple concurrent model bringups and adoption efforts

Facilitate regular syncs, reviews, and roadmap discussions between AIML and feature team stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

Excellent spoken and written communication with the ability to tailor communication style across research engineers, infrastructure teams, and feature team leads

Proven track record in defining processes and executing on them in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Self-motivated and enthusiastic with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities

Deeply curious about how models work and how they get built into product features, with a passion for connecting technical capability to real user impact

Excellent attention to detail and highly organized, able to track many concurrent workstreams across multiple teams

Ability to build relationships and influence others without direct authority

Comfortable engaging with technical concepts related to machine learning models, model infrastructure, and APIs

Minimum Qualifications

3-5+ years experience as a technical software Project or Program Manager, ideally supporting ML/AI or model-focused teams

Prior experience leading and shipping complex, cross-functional technical projects and quickly picking up new technologies

Hands on experience with software development practices and/or the machine learning model lifecycle (training, evaluation, deployment)

Strong technical understanding of on-device and server model infrastructure, and how models integrate into product features

Experience working with large language models, foundation models, or other generative AI systems

Familiarity with on-device and server-side deployment constraints (memory, latency, compute) for ML models

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $144,600 and $263,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.