About the role

What will you do at Apple?

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.

DESCRIPTION

As a Sr Engineering Manager on the Applied Machine Learning team, you will lead

a team software engineers building tools and platform at scale that powers

Apple's enterprise GenAI efforts. You'll be responsible for the technical

execution and delivery of GenAI platform with distributed compute, storage,

ingestion and inference. You'll be working with the team of software engineers

and machine learning engineers to build RAG and Agentic platform components. If

you have a deep understanding for distributed systems, generative AI, 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 for roadmap development and delivery of our

products.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

10+ years of experience working on distributed system 6+ years of experience in

management or leadership role Deep understanding of GenAI fundamentals Deep

understanding of Java, C, C++ or similar programming language Deep understanding

of distributed system like flink, spark, NoSql etc. Bachelors Degree in Computer

Science or equivalent.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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

Which skills does this role require?

Generative AIDistributed SystemsJavaCC++FlinkSparkNoSQLMachine LearningSoftware EngineeringPlatform EngineeringTechnical LeadershipCross-functional CollaborationData PlatformsEnterprise AIScalable PlatformsProduct RoadmapIS&TAppleApplied Machine LearningDistributed ComputeData IngestionStorageLLMsProduct Strategy

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