Finance Platform & AI Foundations Engineering Manager

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 238,000 - 356,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

Employee stock programs

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Foundations for Finance Data & Technology, owning strategy, architecture, and execution of finance platforms across cloud, data, and AI.

You will build production-grade agentic AI capabilities, govern AI usage, and mentor a team of managers and senior ICs, partnering with IS&T, security, and privacy to align investments and priorities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years leading managers and senior technical leaders across multiple teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, architecture, and execution for the Foundations platform, including cloud infrastructure, data platforms, application frameworks, developer tooling, and AI/ML services.
• Lead the build-out of production-grade agentic AI and GenAI capabilities as reusable enterprise assets, not isolated pilots, including model lifecycle management, evaluation pipelines, observability, and responsible AI governance.
• Serve as the primary engineering point of contact with IS&T and other engineering organizations, negotiating shared standards, integration points, and platform dependencies.
• Partner with business-facing delivery pods, finance leadership, security, privacy, and legal to align the platform roadmap with enterprise priorities.
• Manage and develop a team of engineering managers, architects, and senior technical leads; build clear career paths and succession plans.
• Establish engineering standards, architectural principles, and reference patterns that raise the bar on quality, reliability, and security across all consuming teams.
• Define and report platform health metrics, including adoption, developer productivity, deployment velocity, and reliability, to executive stakeholders.
• Drive platform modernization and cost efficiency while scaling to support rapid growth in data volume, AI use cases, and consuming teams.
• Communicate platform strategy and trade-offs clearly to both technical teams and non-technical business partners, building trust and alignment across the organization.
• Balance near-term delivery pressure with long-term investment in platform health, governance, and scalability.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural leadership

AI platforms

Cloud architectures

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

MS or PhD in CS/Statistics/Engineering

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Foundations for Finance Data & Technology, owning strategy, architecture, and execution of finance platforms across cloud, data, and AI.

You will build production-grade agentic AI capabilities, govern AI usage, and mentor a team of managers and senior ICs, partnering with IS&T, security, and privacy to align investments and priorities.