Engineering Manager, Large-Scale AI Search & Knowledge

Apple; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in Santa Clara, CA seeks a seasoned Engineering Manager to build and lead a backend infra and ML engineering team. You will own the technical roadmap for large-scale indexing and serving systems and drive execution against ambitious scale, reliability, latency, and cost targets.

You will partner across quality, infra, and product teams to prioritize what gets built, growing a high-performing team while shaping architecture for billions of documents and real-time pipelines powering search

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading and driving complex, large scale search infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing managers and engineering teams, including hiring, growth, and performance management.
• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a backend infra and ML engineering team.
• Own the technical roadmap for large-scale indexing and serving systems.
• Drive execution against scale, reliability, latency, and cost targets.
• Partner across quality, infra, and product teams to prioritize what gets built.

Skills

Web-scale indexing

Distributed systems

Algorithms

Data structures

Staff management

Hiring & growth

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science

Job description

Apple in Santa Clara, CA seeks a seasoned Engineering Manager to build and lead a backend infra and ML engineering team. You will own the technical roadmap for large-scale indexing and serving systems and drive execution against ambitious scale, reliability, latency, and cost targets.

You will partner across quality, infra, and product teams to prioritize what gets built, growing a high-performing team while shaping architecture for billions of documents and real-time pipelines powering search