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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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The Software Development Engineering Manager, ASK Production Engineering joins a distributed-systems team focused on building and growing the company's machine learning platform. This role involves developing next-generation services for Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud OS while improving the reliability of existing platforms using AIOps. Key responsibilities include delivering reliable AIOps frameworks across ML inference, fine-tuning, training, and GPU cluster workloads, as well as engineering microservices for ML-powered search. The manager will optimize software delivery for GPUs, TPUs, and ASICs while designing monitoring systems for hardware health, networking fabric, and resource utilization. Candidates should possess experience in multi-cloud infrastructure, load balancing, and observability. Required technical skills include proficiency in Java, Python, or Go for automation and integration, along with expertise in Linux environments to support high-performance, consumer-facing workloads within the AI and LLM-powered search space.
Deliver highly reliable AIOps frameworks across ML inference, fine-tuning, training, and GPU cluster workloads.
Engineer modular microservices to power Apple Intelligence and other ML-powered search experiences.
Optimize software delivery for specialized hardware including GPUs, TPUs, and ASICs from the ground up.
Design and implement comprehensive monitoring for hardware health, networking fabric, and resource utilization.
Improve reliability for global traffic and load balancing systems supporting Apple Intelligence.
Evolve system architecture to support the growth of AI and LLM-powered search platforms.
Manage high-performance engineering teams to deliver production-facing machine learning infrastructure.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent related experience.
10+ years of experience building and running scalable services in public clouds.
Senior-level engineering-management experience with Search, Voice-assistants, AIOps, ML, and cluster operations.
Experience developing and operating multi-cloud infrastructure worldwide with a focus on ML-powered search and AIOps.
Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go for automation and API integration.
Demonstrated track record of translating high-level requirements into solutions and mobilizing cross-functional teams.
Strong communication skills to work with technical/business teams and various levels of management.
Experience managing high-performance teams of expert engineers (preferred); mastery of load-balancing, observability, and microservice architectures (preferred).