AIML - Manager, Quality Engineering Program

Job Description

The Quality Engineering Manager role at Apple involves leading a team focused on ensuring the quality of data used for training and evaluating machine learning models.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data quality, quality engineering, or a related field, including 2+ years in a management or leadership role.
• Extraordinary leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
• Meticulous, strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of data quality concepts, challenges, and best practices.
• Proven track record of driving process improvements and managing multi-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support a team of Quality Engineers responsible for QA strategy, tooling, and implementation across annotation workflows.
• Define and refine scalable processes and metrics to assess the quality, consistency, and relevance of labeled data.
• Partner with Engineering teams to build automated validation logic for detecting inconsistencies and data anomalies.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to analyze how data quality impacts model behavior and identify opportunities for data improvement.
• Lead multi-functional alignment on annotation QA standards and ensure feedback loops between quality, guidelines, and tooling.
• Own and evolve golden set evaluations, consensus grading protocols, and annotator quality tracking mechanisms.
• Conduct root cause analyses on quality issues and drive corrective actions in collaboration with upstream teams.
• Stay ahead of QA and data quality best practices, and drive continuous improvement in tools and methodologies.

Benefits

• Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.