Engineering Program Manager, OS Programs - Apple Intelligence Operations

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

Engineering Program Manager, OS Programs - Apple Intelligence Operations

Cupertino, California, United States Software and Services

Why Apple? Apple Intelligence Operations is at the center of making some of the most exciting Software features a reality for Customers. As a SWE program manager in this role, you have the opportunity to collaborate with Apple Feature teams across the company to deliver Apple Intelligence powered features across every Apple product. To thrive in this role, you enjoy driving clarity across many stakeholders, turning requirements into clear plans, and helping teams navigate fast-moving technical infrastructure. Your curiosity and passion for learning will inspire your thought leadership to invent new processes and refine existing ones to drive bringup for new models across on-device and server infrastructure, and guide adoption of new model versions.

Description

The Model Operations team provides crucial partnership to connect the AIML team with the many feature teams across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS and services.

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

Minimum 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 machine learning 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent spoken and written communication with the ability to tailor communication style across research engineers, infrastructure teams, and feature team leads
• Proven track record in defining processes and executing on them in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
• Deeply curious about how models work and how they get built into product features, with a passion for connecting technical capability to real user impact
• Excellent attention to detail and highly organized, able to track many concurrent workstreams across multiple teams
• Ability to build relationships and influence others without direct authority
• Comfortable engaging with technical concepts related to machine learning models, model infrastructure, and APIs

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 $263,800, 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
• for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
• discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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