Director, AI Enablement & Developer Tooling

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 268,000 - 402,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, seeks a vision-driven leader for the AI Enablement team to accelerate Apps through AI-powered developer tooling.

You’ll partner with App Software teams to optimize development, build scalable platform solutions, and evangelize AI-driven workflows across engineering while upholding high standards. You’ll set direction, manage roadmaps, and mentor engineers, shaping culture and capability with a growth mindset.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated AI proficiency and how AI tools fit into software dev workflows.
• Led platform engineering or developer tooling org as engineering leader or tech lead.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a software engineer.
• Applied product-minded thinking to infrastructure or developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team spanning developer consulting and platform functions.
• Drive a product-minded culture by questioning the why before how to build.
• Own the team roadmap from ideation to delivery aligned with AI optimization.
• Identify high-leverage developer pain points and prioritize platform investments.

Skills

AI proficiency

Platform leadership

5+ years SW

Product-minded infra

Program management

Communication

Tech evangelism

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Internal Developer Platforms

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, seeks a vision-driven leader for the AI Enablement team to accelerate Apps through AI-powered developer tooling.

You’ll partner with App Software teams to optimize development, build scalable platform solutions, and evangelize AI-driven workflows across engineering while upholding high standards. You’ll set direction, manage roadmaps, and mentor engineers, shaping culture and capability with a growth mindset.