Apple
Software Engineering Manager, Fitness Intelligence Infrastructure - Watch Software
$206K–$356K
Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years industry experience; 3+ years technical team leadership, or demonstrated readiness through sustained technical leadership of a team.
About the job
Manage a new team building AI infrastructure and shipping intelligence-backed fitness features for Apple Watch and iPhone.
What you'll do
- Lead, hire, coach, and establish practices for a team of technical engineers.
- Build and maintain datasets, evaluation pipelines, prompts, and tooling for intelligence-backed features.
- Partner with feature teams to iterate, ship, and scale features while designing for user privacy.
What they ask for
- 8+ years industry experience.
- 3+ years leading a technical team and collaborating across organizational boundaries, or demonstrated readiness through sustained technical leadership of a team.
- Deep technical understanding and hands-on experience with software development and lifecycle management.
- Experience shipping user-facing features built on large language models, plus hands-on experience with evaluation methodology, prompt development and tuning, and related tooling.
Nice to have
- Experience building datasets and measurement systems.
- Experience shipping production Swift, including API design, performance and memory budgets.
Pay
$206,200 and $356,400 (USD base salary)
Tools
Swift, large language models
AI focus
Develop and ship AI-backed fitness features, including prompt and tool development, dataset creation, evaluation pipelines, and applied AI infrastructure.
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