Engineering Program Manager, AI and Data Platforms

Apple Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple seeks an Engineering Program Manager for AI and Data Platforms in Sunnyvale to lead end-to-end AI platform programs, collaborate with AI/ML teams, and define success metrics. You will shape roadmaps, drive release readiness, and partner with stakeholders to measure adoption and business impact across Apple’s AI initiatives.

You will use AI agents to automate reporting, synthesize insights, and enable rapid decision-making for executives and engineers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience in an engineering, technical product, or technical program role.
• 1+ years managing AI programs or projects across multiple teams toward a shared objective.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools in your own work — automating analysis, drafting, prototyping, or building something you then used.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery for AI and Data platform programs: scope, roadmap, dependencies, critical path, risks, and launch readiness.
• Partner with engineering to define evaluation and quality criteria for AI capabilities, and track them as first-class program health signals alongside schedule.
• Build and maintain a single source of truth on status — clear DRIs, sequenced dependencies, honest risk calls — and report to engineering and executive leadership with the right altitude and cadence.
• Drive consensus across teams with competing priorities; influence without authority across AiDP and partner organizations at Apple.
• Instrument adoption and business impact after launch, and use what you find to shape the next cycle of the roadmap.
• Use AI agents and assistants to automate your own program operations — reporting, triage, synthesis — and share what works with the broader PMO.
• Contribute to product definition by bringing a user-centric point of view and challenging decisions that don’t serve the user.

Skills

AI program management

AI tools usage

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

BS in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AI platforms

Job description

Engineering Program Manager, AI and Data Platforms

Sunnyvale, California, United States Corporate Functions

Do you love understanding every detail of how new technologies work? Join the team that serves as Apple’s nerve center, our Information Systems and Technology group. From Apple Pay to the Apple website to our data centers around the globe, you’ll help design and manage the massive systems that countless employees and customers rely on every day.You’ll join AiDP — the organization building Apple’s enterprise Generative AI and Data platforms. We don’t just manage AI programs; we run our own programs with AI. The EPM who joins us will ship AI platforms to tens of thousands of Apple employees, and will do it using the same agentic tooling they help deliver.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.This is a role for someone early in their program management career who is unusually fluent with AI tools and wants to define what the craft looks like next.

Description

Three things make this different from a traditional program role: AI systems don’t ship like software. Launch readiness isn’t a pass/fail test matrix. You’ll work with engineering to define evaluation criteria, track quality and regression signals as program health metrics, and make release calls under genuine uncertainty about infinite use cases.You’ll operate as an AI-Native EPM. We expect you to use AI agents and assistants as a working partner — drafting status, synthesizing meeting notes, building your own lightweight tooling, automating reporting that used to be manual. We measure EPMs on outcomes delivered, not hours of coordination performed. If you’ve never automated a piece of your own job, this isn’t the right fit.Adoption, Engagement, Retention is the deliverable. Shipping the platform is half the program. You’ll track usage, retention, and business impact, and feed what you learn back into the roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery for AI ad Data platform programs: scope, roadmap, dependencies, critical path, risks, and launch readiness.
• Partner with engineering to define evaluation and quality criteria for AI capabilities, and track them as first-class program health signals alongside schedule.
• Build and maintain a single source of truth on status — clear DRIs, sequenced dependencies, honest risk calls — and report to engineering and executive leadership with the right altitude and cadence.
• Drive consensus across teams with competing priorities; influence without authority across AiDP and partner organizations at Apple.
• Instrument adoption and business impact after launch, and use what you find to shape the next cycle of the roadmap.
• Use AI agents and assistants to automate your own program operations — reporting, triage, synthesis — and share what works with the broader PMO.
• Contribute to product definition by bringing a user-centric point of view and challenging decisions that don’t serve the user.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience in an engineering, technical product, or technical program role.
• 1+ years managing AI programs or projects across multiple teams toward a shared objective.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools in your own work — automating analysis, drafting, prototyping, or building something you then used. Be ready to show us what you built.
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to AI/ML or data platform programs — model deployment, evaluations, RAG or agentic systems, or data pipelines.
• Working understanding of how AI systems differ from deterministic software: non-determinism, evaluation, and what "quality" means when there's no single correct output.
• Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-moving, high-visibility environment, exercised with discretion and integrity.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication; you can compress a complex program into three lines for an executive and expand it to a design review for engineers.

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 $144,600 and $218,000, 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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