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The Senior Engineering Manager, Conversational AI & Knowledge Intelligence leads the engineering organization within the AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms team. This leader manages a team of machine learning engineers, software engineers, data engineers, and applied scientists to build the next generation of AI-powered experiences for Siri, Spotlight, and Safari. Key responsibilities include defining the architecture and execution strategy for Conversational AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Knowledge Intelligence. The role involves building scalable knowledge pipelines, LLM-powered reasoning capabilities, and retrieval infrastructure using proprietary knowledge graphs, foundation models, and vector databases. The position requires expertise in NLP, distributed systems, and LLM post-training techniques like RLHF and RLAIF to solve problems related to answer grounding, hallucination mitigation, and low-latency inference across Private Cloud Compute and Apple silicon devices.
What does a Engineering Manager earn in Washington?
Median $268200 from 37 postings across 10 companies.
Define the vision, architecture, and execution strategy for Apple's Conversational AI and Knowledge Intelligence platforms.
Lead engineering and research for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), conversational reasoning, and LLM inference optimization.
Build intelligent systems that combine proprietary knowledge graphs, web content, and foundation models to deliver accurate answers.
Drive the development of scalable pipelines to acquire, curate, synthesize, and distill information into high-quality knowledge assets.
Develop on-device and server-side software frameworks for low-latency, privacy-preserving retrieval and orchestration across Apple silicon.
Partner with foundation model teams to improve retrieval quality, hallucination mitigation, and factual consistency.
Build and mentor high-performing engineering managers and technical leaders to execute multi-year roadmaps.
What we're looking for
MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, or a related technical field.
8+ years of experience leading large-scale engineering and machine learning organizations delivering AI-powered products in production.
Deep experience building conversational AI, search, question answering, knowledge systems, recommendation systems, or large-scale information retrieval platforms.
Strong technical expertise in large language models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), NLP, and distributed systems.
Demonstrated ability to define long-term technical strategy while successfully executing complex cross-functional programs involving multiple engineering organizations.
Deep expertise in modern LLM architectures, agentic AI, retrieval systems, semantic search, vector databases, embedding models, knowledge graphs, and multi-stage retrieval and ranking systems (preferred).
Strong engineering and R&D experience in LLM post-training, reinforcement learning, reward modeling, policy optimization, model alignment, grounding, and production deployment of large-scale AI systems (preferred).
Experience building large-scale knowledge generation, knowledge distillation, content understanding, and knowledge enrichment pipelines (preferred).
Conversational AI
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Knowledge Graphs
Vector Databases
Distributed Systems
Model Alignment
Knowledge Distillation
Semantic Search
Core ML
Information Retrieval
Ranking Systems
Embedding Models
LLM Inference Optimization
Knowledge Pipelines
Conversational AI
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Knowledge Graphs
Vector Databases
Distributed Systems
Core ML
Information Retrieval
Semantic Search
Knowledge Distillation
Model Alignment
Embedding Models
LLM Inference Optimization
Knowledge Pipelines
Conversational AI
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Knowledge Graphs
Vector Databases
Distributed Systems
Core ML
RLHF
RLAIF
Information Retrieval
Semantic Search
Model Alignment
Knowledge Distillation
Embedding Models
Ranking Systems
LLM Inference Optimization
Conversational AI
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Knowledge Graphs
Vector Databases
Distributed Systems
Model Alignment
Knowledge Distillation
Semantic Search
Core ML
Information Retrieval
Ranking Systems
Embedding Models
LLM Inference Optimization
Conversational AI
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Knowledge Graphs
Vector Databases
Distributed Systems
Core ML
Information Retrieval
Semantic Search
Model Alignment
Knowledge Distillation
Embedding Models
LLM Inference Optimization
Ranking Systems
Conversational AI
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Knowledge Graphs
Vector Databases
Distributed Systems
Core ML
Information Retrieval
Semantic Search
Model Alignment
Knowledge Distillation
Embedding Models
Ranking Systems
LLM Inference Optimization
Private Cloud Compute