Engineering Program Manager, AI/ML OS Platforms

Apple, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental

Retirement benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Relocation assistance

Discounted products and services

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking an Engineering Program Manager for OS Programs within Apple Intelligence Operations in Cupertino, CA.

You will collaborate with feature teams to deliver intelligence-powered features across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and other platforms, driving clarity, plans, and adoption of model versions across on-device and server infrastructure. You will coordinate bringups, guide API/tooling use, and manage multi-team roadmaps while aligning with AIML and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years experience as a technical software Project or Program Manager, ideally supporting ML/AI or model-focused teams.
• Prior experience leading and shipping complex, cross-functional technical projects and quickly picking up new technologies.
• Hands-on experience with software development practices and/or the ML model lifecycle (training, evaluation, deployment).
• Strong technical understanding of on-device and server model infrastructure, and how models integrate into product features.
• Experience working with large language models, foundation models, or other generative AI systems.
• Familiarity with on-device and server-side deployment constraints (memory, latency, compute) for ML models.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact between AIML and feature teams, gathering, synthesizing, and prioritizing model requirements.
• Help feature teams onboard to build new features on top of Apple's on-device and server models, including guiding them through APIs, tooling, and best practices.
• Drive bringup and rollout of new models across Apple's on-device and server infrastructure, coordinating across AIML, infrastructure, and feature teams.
• Partner with feature teams to plan and execute adoption of new model versions as they're released, minimizing disruption and maximizing capability uptake.
• Track and clearly communicate model roadmaps, capabilities, and constraints to stakeholders across the company.
• Identify process and tooling gaps, and build scalable processes to streamline how feature teams engage with the Model Team.
• Manage cross-functional schedules, dependencies, and risks across multiple concurrent model bringups and adoption efforts.
• Facilitate regular syncs, reviews, and roadmap discussions between AIML and feature team stakeholders.

Skills

ML/AI experience

Cross-functional leadership

Software development basics

Model lifecycle knowledge

Communication excellence

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking an Engineering Program Manager for OS Programs within Apple Intelligence Operations in Cupertino, CA.

You will collaborate with feature teams to deliver intelligence-powered features across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and other platforms, driving clarity, plans, and adoption of model versions across on-device and server infrastructure. You will coordinate bringups, guide API/tooling use, and manage multi-team roadmaps while aligning with AIML and infrastructure teams.