Sr Machine Learning Manager, Intelligent System Experience

The Apple Intelligence Platform team builds the foundational on-device software infrastructure that powers Apple Intelligence. We develop the APIs, platforms, and systems that enable breakthrough features like Writing Tools, Siri, Visual Intelligence, and Image Playground. Our work spans the full software stack — from low-level inference engines and runtime optimization to high-level platform APIs like the Foundation Models API. Our mission is to build production-ready software platforms that deliver magical experiences to millions of users. We work closely with research teams to understand new ML techniques, then focus on the engineering challenges of building robust, scalable systems to ship them. Whether it's designing APIs for agentic workflows, optimizing inference pipelines, implementing efficient caching strategies for attention mechanisms, or creating infrastructure for search and retrieval, we're focused on the platform engineering and software architectures that makes Apple Intelligence possible. We value strong software engineering fundamentals combined with deep understanding of ML systems and techniques. Our team members know how to build production platforms that are reliable, performant, and maintainable at scale, while also understanding the ML primitives — transformers, attention, KV caches, kernels — that power these systems. We're looking for a leader who can drive platform development, build strong engineering teams, and deliver the software infrastructure that powers Apple Intelligence features used by millions every day.