Engineering Manager, Fitness Intelligence Infra

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 206,000 - 356,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking an exceptionally dedicated software engineering manager to lead a new team focused on the intelligence infrastructure behind fitness experiences for Apple Watch and iPhone.

The role involves shipping production Swift code on device and on server-side, mentoring engineers, and building datasets and evaluation pipelines to turn model capabilities into shipped features. You will collaborate across Annie teams, hire to grow the team, and uphold privacy-first design in every

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience.
• 3+ years leading a technical team across organizational boundaries.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle.
• Experience shipping user-facing features built on large language models.
• Hands-on experience with evaluation, prompt tuning, and tooling.
• Strong product sense and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with feature teams to define what the intelligence layer must deliver, then deliver it, co-owning outcomes rather than surfaces.
• Own the craft of iteration to shipping quality: prompt development, tool and function definitions, scenario construction, and the loop between them.
• Establish golden datasets and evaluation pipelines that give the organization a trustworthy answer to whether a capability is good enough to ship.
• Drive the infrastructure that lets features scale past their first release, including additional languages and regions, broader feature awareness, and richer interactivity.
• Track how the state of the art in applied AI is moving, and make deliberate calls about which new techniques are ready to bring into shipping experiences and which are not.
• Hire, grow, and coach engineers, and set the culture and engineering practices for a new team.
• Design for user privacy from the first sketch, because fitness and health data deserves nothing less.

Skills

Lead a technical team

Software development lifecycle

Evaluation methodology

Prompt development

On-device and server-side Swift

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Swift

API design

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking an exceptionally dedicated software engineering manager to lead a new team focused on the intelligence infrastructure behind fitness experiences for Apple Watch and iPhone.

The role involves shipping production Swift code on device and on server-side, mentoring engineers, and building datasets and evaluation pipelines to turn model capabilities into shipped features. You will collaborate across Annie teams, hire to grow the team, and uphold privacy-first design in every