Apple
Software Development Engineering Manager, ASK Production Engineering
$268K–$402K
Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; senior-level engineering-management experience is also required, with no duration stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent related experience.
About the job
Leads engineering of production-facing machine-learning platforms and AIOps systems that support Apple Intelligence, Search, Siri, and other worldwide services.
What you'll do
- Deliver reliable AIOps frameworks for ML inference, fine-tuning, training, and GPU-cluster workloads.
- Build modular microservices for ML-powered search and improve reliability of worldwide traffic and load balancing.
- Design monitoring for hardware, networking, workloads, microservices, and resource utilization; optimize software delivery for GPUs, TPUs, and ASICs.
What they ask for
- 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 worldwide multi-cloud infrastructure, focused on ML-powered search and AIOps.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent related experience; proficiency with programming languages such as Java/Python/Go.
Nice to have
- Deep understanding of Search and voice-assistant technologies; experience managing high-performance engineering teams.
- Expertise in AIOps, load balancing, observability, microservices, security and cryptography, performance, and reliability.
Pay
$267,800 and $401,700 (base salary range)
Tools
Java, Python, Go, Linux, GPUS, TPUs, ASICs
AI focus
Build and operate production ML platforms and AIOps for inference, fine-tuning, training, and GPU-cluster workloads; develop ML-powered search and services for Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud OS.
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