Senior AI Enablement Engineering Manager, Apps Team

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$267,800–$401,700 / yr
Posted
12 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $335k
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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Senior AI Enablement Engineering Manager, Apps Team

The Senior AI Enablement Engineering Manager, Apps Team leads a specialized team focused on empowering the Apps organization through AI-powered developer tooling. In this role, you will manage a team spanning developer consulting and platform functions to identify build and integration bottlenecks while developing scalable platform solutions. You will be responsible for setting the roadmap, fostering a product-minded culture, and evangelizing AI capabilities to improve engineering standards and workflows. The position requires expertise in AI proficiency, LLM integration patterns, MLOps infrastructure, and CI/CD orchestration. Candidates must possess strong skills in program management, developer experience, and reliability engineering. You will work to solve the challenge of accelerating software development cycles by integrating AI tools into existing processes, ultimately reducing friction and enhancing productivity across various internal engineering teams through strategic consultation and technical leadership.

What you'll do

  • Lead and grow a team of engineers across developer consulting and platform functions.
  • Manage the team roadmap from ideation through delivery while ensuring alignment with AI optimization goals.
  • Identify developer pain points and prioritize investments in scalable platform solutions.
  • Evangelize AI-powered developer tooling to increase adoption and awareness across engineering teams.
  • Partner with cross-functional leadership to align technical roadmaps and prevent duplicative investments.
  • Establish a clear vision for developer experience and platform reliability to build organizational trust.
  • Translate developer productivity metrics and qualitative feedback into strategic narratives for senior leadership.
  • Mentor engineers in both consulting and platform support disciplines to foster high accountability.

What we're looking for

  • Demonstrated AI proficiency and experience leading the implementation of AI into software development processes.
  • Proven experience leading a platform engineering, developer experience, or software tooling organization as a manager or technical lead.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Track record of applying product-minded thinking to infrastructure or developer tooling.
  • Strong background in engineering-aware program management across the full idea-to-shipped-code lifecycle.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills to influence senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to evangelize new technologies and drive adoption to shift engineering culture.
  • Experience in Platform Engineering or DevEx roles, SRE principles, or deep expertise in AI/ML tooling (preferred).

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