Senior Engineering Manager, Agentic AI & Intelligent Reasoning

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Salary: $267,800–$401,700 / yr
Posted: 13 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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

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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 agentic AI frameworks, reasoning systems, planning engines, memory architectures, and orchestration platforms. Your daily work involves building 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 focuses on solving complex user intent problems by building intelligent agents that orchestrate tools and data to provide personalized, accurate experiences across various platforms including Siri, Apple Intelligence, Spotlight, and Safari.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $290250 from 64 postings across 19 companies.

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Skills

Agentic AI Large Language Models Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Reasoning Systems Machine Learning Natural Language Processing RLHF RLAIF Distributed Systems Multi-agent Systems Orchestration Frameworks Chain-of-Thought Model Alignment Evaluation Frameworks Observability

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 benchmarking 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, safety, and user experience.