Apple
Music Content Operations AIML Program Lead
$164K–$247K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in operations, program management, or technical product roles with meaningful exposure to AI/ML-driven workflows.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business/Economics, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads the strategy and execution of AI/ML-enabled music curation operations, partnering with technical teams to develop, evaluate, and integrate agents while defining human review workflows.
What you'll do
- Plan and deliver prioritized automation workstreams from concept through production, including agent development and integration.
- Define evaluation methods and human-in-the-loop workflows for reviewing model and agent outputs.
- Translate operational needs into technical requirements, assess impact and proposals, and communicate progress and recommendations to leadership.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in operations, program management, or technical product roles with meaningful exposure to AI/ML-driven workflows.
- Experience translating operational or product problems into ML requirements and partnering with data scientists and engineers through model development.
- Experience evaluating model outputs and designing evaluation sets, quality metrics, error analysis, and human feedback loops.
- Ability to work onsite; some nights and weekends as needed; up to 15%+ domestic and international travel.
Nice to have
- Music industry or music metadata experience; hands-on experience building or deploying production agentic systems.
- SQL or similar data-querying skills; Tableau or comparable BI tooling.
Pay
USD $164,500 to $247,400 base salary
Tools
AI/ML, LLM, SQL, Tableau, MLOps
AI focus
Developing and deploying agents and models for music curation; evaluating outputs and designing human-in-the-loop review and automation workflows.
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