Senior Engineering PM — ML & Infrastructure for Music

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 312,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Music is seeking a Senior Engineering Program Manager to lead ML and infrastructure initiatives within Apple Services Engineering in Cupertino, CA. You will guide cross-functional teams through end-to-end delivery, balancing ML experimentation with data infrastructure improvements to ship scalable, customer-facing recommendations.

The role requires 7+ years in engineering program management, strong multi-team coordination, and a passion for privacy-conscious, high-impact systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as an Engineering Program Manager.
• Proven track record in driving software development initiatives.
• Experience with big data processing, machine learning, and distributed systems.
• Ability to manage complex dependency chains across multiple engineering organizations.
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field or equivalent industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects/programs through the software development lifecycle from planning to launch.
• Partner with stakeholders to create functional and technical requirements for recommendation systems and data infrastructure initiatives.
• Drive cross-org coordination across Privacy Engineering, ML teams, platform teams, client engineering, and service owners to align on sequenced delivery plans.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Product, QA, Legal, Finance, Privacy, Marketing, Operations, and other organizations both inside and outside of Apple to support personalization features and foundational infrastructure in Apple Music.
• Translate deeply technical work, whether ML model performance or infrastructure migration status into clear executive updates and risk assessments.
• Flexible working with teams across US timezones.
• Help establish processes to improve how our products are built and executed.

Skills

Engineering program management

Technical program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field

Job description

Apple Music is seeking a Senior Engineering Program Manager to lead ML and infrastructure initiatives within Apple Services Engineering in Cupertino, CA. You will guide cross-functional teams through end-to-end delivery, balancing ML experimentation with data infrastructure improvements to ship scalable, customer-facing recommendations.

The role requires 7+ years in engineering program management, strong multi-team coordination, and a passion for privacy-conscious, high-impact systems.