Sr Engineering Program Manager, AI/ML

At Apple, we believe excellent ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products with unique customer experiences at the highest quality. When you bring passion and dedication to your job, there's no telling what you could accomplish! The people here at Apple don't just build products - they craft the kind of wonder that's revolutionized entire industries.

The Graphics, Gaming & Machine Learning (GGML) team is seeking a Technical Program Manager to help shape the future of scalable machine learning infrastructure. In this role, you'll lead planning, execution, and cross-functional coordination across engineering teams to deliver robust, high-performance ML systems that operate across Apple's cloud and distributed environments. You'll help define and run processes that ensure the timely delivery of GPU, compute, and data infrastructure components that support large-scale ML workloads.

We are looking for an energetic and motivated individual with strong communication, organizational, and technical skills who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Description

We're looking for a strong Engineering Program Manager with a proven record of building and maintaining complex software platforms, tools, and processes that deliver new end-to-end experiences on-device. You will partner with teams across Apple and deliver some of the most ambitious capabilities for executing AI/ML features on scalable distributed systems, and ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency of ML pipelines and services.

If you are the type of person that feels a personal stake in everything that you work on, have a strong sense of ownership, thrive in fast-paced environments with lots of ambiguity, enjoy working with complex technologies, know how to foster strong relationships, build trust, and work for the success for the entire team, then you will be a strong match for our team. We want to talk to you!

Preferred Qualifications

BS/MS (EE/CS/CE), or a related technical field.

Background in CPU, GPU (Graphics HW, Graphics APIs like Metal) or exposure to Display technologies(eg: Color, HDR,..) experience is a strong plus

Experience driving graphics/compute API and software/hardware feature development lifecycles from concept through launch, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.

Prior PM or engineering experience in AI/ML model training, high-performance distributed computing, or inference optimization technologies

Experience with silicon acceleration and compute frameworks

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years in a role leading cross-functional teams in product/project/program development

Proven track record of delivering large-scale engineering products or platforms involving machine learning, including experience with model training and optimization, distributed server side inference, and/or user-facing applications that use those services and deliver measurable business or product value.

Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and ML frameworks.

Experience leading multi-functional teams to develop and deploy GPU-accelerated AI/ML solutions across Apple's product ecosystem.

Experience driving graphics/compute API and software/hardware feature development lifecycles from concept through launch, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.

Familiarity with ML lifecycle from experimentation to production.

Track and report program status, including risks, timelines, resource needs, and cross-functional dependencies.

Drive resolution of technical risks and challenges, working in close partnership with engineering leads.

Champion innovation and execution excellence, setting strategic direction for GPU-accelerated AI/ML initiatives at Apple.

Self-motivated, independent, and proactive; demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities; can quickly (real-time) triage, prioritize, and lead cross-functional teams under pressure.

Effective and clear communication and presentation skills, written and verbal

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 $141,800 and $258,600, 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

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