Senior Engineering Manager, Agentic AI & Intelligent Reasoning

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$254,400–$381,600 / yr
Posted
37 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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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 Engineering Manager, Agentic AI & Intelligent Reasoning

As the Senior Engineering Manager, Agentic AI & Intelligent Reasoning, you will lead a high-performing organization of machine learning engineers, software engineers, and applied scientists within the AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms team. You will define the technical strategy and execution roadmap for building next-generation agentic AI frameworks, reasoning systems, planning engines, memory architectures, and orchestration platforms. Your work focuses on developing systems capable of multi-hop reasoning, task decomposition, and synthesizing grounded answers from heterogeneous knowledge sources while maintaining strict privacy standards. You will manage the development of large language models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, chain-of-thought optimization, and reinforcement learning for LLMs. The role involves building robust evaluation frameworks, safety guardrails, and observation systems to ensure factuality and reliability across complex reasoning chains and multi-intent requests within a sophisticated AI ecosystem.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Washington?

Median $267050 from 35 postings across 10 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define the vision, technical strategy, and execution roadmap for Agentic AI and knowledge platforms.
  • Lead engineering and research to build agents capable of multi-hop reasoning and complex task decomposition.
  • Develop agentic architectures that orchestrate LLMs, retrieval systems, memory modules, and external tools.
  • Drive innovations in planning, tool use, and long-context reasoning to improve answer factuality and relevance.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate user context and web information while maintaining strict privacy standards.
  • Build robust evaluation frameworks, safety guardrails, and observability systems to measure agent quality.
  • Mentor high-performing engineering managers and technical leaders to execute multi-year roadmaps for global products.

What we're looking for

  • MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, or a related technical field.
  • 8+ years of experience leading engineering organizations delivering large-scale AI, machine learning, or distributed systems in production.
  • Proven track record of delivering complex AI platforms from research through production at scale.
  • Strong experience in large language models, conversational AI, intelligent agents, reasoning systems, or advanced machine learning platforms.
  • Demonstrated success leading cross-functional organizations and defining long-term technical strategy while executing complex engineering programs.
  • Deep expertise in agentic AI architectures, autonomous agents, planning algorithms, tool use, memory architectures, and orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience in RAG, chain-of-thought optimization, RLHF/RLAIF, model alignment, and advanced context techniques.
  • Ability to design scalable evaluation systems for reasoning quality, factuality, grounding, and safety.

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