Senior Engineering Program Manager, Search Quality and Infrastructure

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $166,600–$250,700 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Senior Engineering Program Manager, Search Quality and Infrastructure

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AIML - Sr Engineering Program Manager, Search Quality and Infrastructure will join a team focused on building search infrastructure and delivering products with world knowledge answering features. The role involves leading large cross-functional projects to improve user experience by collaborating with deep learning and AI engineers. You will manage end-to-end program execution, drive consensus among multiple groups, and oversee technical dependencies and system integrations. Daily responsibilities include creating project schedules, identifying risks, and communicating status updates to executive teams while ensuring alignment across partner teams. The role requires expertise in machine learning powered products, large language models, and sophisticated backend and front-end systems. You will use quantitative and qualitative data to measure success across quality and usage scale metrics while navigating complex system architecture and design trade-offs to deliver high-quality features on aggressive timelines.

Skills

Machine Learning Large Language Models Search Infrastructure System Architecture Systems Design Front-end Systems Program Management

What you'll do

Drive end-to-end program execution and manage technical dependencies across multiple cross-functional teams.
Lead the development of search infrastructure and products using large language models and deep learning.
Create and manage project schedules with clear dependencies, critical paths, and systematic status reporting.
Proactively identify risks, close gaps, and re-plan projects to meet aggressive timelines.
Define and lead measurements for success including quality, usage scale, and other key KPIs.
Collect early feedback from internal dogfooding to drive iterative feature improvements.
Advocate for user experience by analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data.
Propose and implement new processes to improve team operations and delivery of results.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or related field and equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience driving large scale program building machine learning powered products.
3+ years experience bringing a product from concept to completion, ideally involving machine-learning features or sophisticated systems.
Deep understanding of software development for machine-learned products and how analytics/evaluation data improve those products.
Excellent program management skills including structuring and managing multiple interdependent work streams.
Strong ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly to all levels of audience in both verbal and written forms.
8+ years experience in delivering search and generative answer quality improvements (preferred).
Experience orchestrating the delivery of multiple significant client/server software products requiring large organizations of 100+ across teams (preferred).

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