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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