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Apple

Senior Engineering Manager, Conversational AI & Knowledge Intelligence

$254K–$402K

Santa Clara, California +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2026

Location
Santa Clara, California
Seattle, Washington
Experience
8+ years leading large-scale engineering and machine learning organizations delivering AI-powered products in production.
Education
MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, or a related technical field.

About the job

Leads the engineering organization building conversational AI, retrieval, and knowledge intelligence systems for Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Apple Intelligence, and future Apple experiences.

What you'll do

  • Set technical vision, architecture, and execution strategy for the Conversational AI and Knowledge Intelligence platform.
  • Lead engineering and research across RAG, knowledge pipelines, conversational reasoning, grounding, ranking, and LLM inference optimization.
  • Build and mentor engineering leaders and teams, and coordinate cross-functional delivery of multi-year roadmaps.

What they ask for

  • MS or Ph.D. in a related technical field.
  • 8+ years leading large-scale engineering and machine learning organizations delivering production AI products.
  • Deep experience building conversational AI, search, question answering, knowledge systems, recommendation systems, or large-scale information retrieval platforms.
  • Strong technical expertise in LLMs, RAG, NLP, and distributed systems.

Nice to have

  • Expertise in modern LLM architectures, agentic AI, retrieval systems, semantic search, vector databases, embedding models, knowledge graphs, or retrieval and ranking systems.
  • Experience in LLM post-training, RLHF/RLAIF, reward modeling, knowledge pipelines, or large-scale AI deployment.

Pay

$254,400 and $381,600 USD base salary; $267,800 and $401,700 USD base salary

Tools

LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), NLP, distributed systems, Private Cloud Compute, Core ML, Apple silicon

AI focus

Leads development of conversational AI, world-knowledge question answering, RAG, knowledge pipelines, LLM reasoning, grounding, hallucination mitigation, and optimized on-device and server-side inference.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)