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AIML - Sr Engineering Program Manager, Search Quality and Infrastructure

Apple

Location

Cupertino, CA, Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/5/2026

Compensation

Not listed

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.0% approval+30% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

The Senior Engineering Program Manager at Apple will lead a large cross-functional project focused on enhancing the search infrastructure and delivering innovative search products. This role involves collaborating with top-tier deep learning and AI engineers to apply groundbreaking technologies, including Large Language Models, to improve user experiences for over a billion customers. The program manager will drive consensus among diverse teams, manage project schedules, and ensure alignment across all partner teams. The position requires a strong focus on quality, user experience, and effective communication.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in driving large scale program building machine learning powered products
  • 3+ years experience bringing a product from concept to completion, ideally working on machine-learning features and/or sophisticated backend and front-end systems
  • Deep understanding of software development for machine-learned products and services
  • Strong desire to learn and aptitude for problem solving
  • Excellent program management skills including program structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently
  • Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or related field and equivalent experience
  • 8+ years experience in delivering search and generative answer quality improvements is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Drive consensus across multiple groups with varying opinions and needs
  • Create and manage project schedules with clear dependencies and critical paths
  • Proactively identify and manage risks, close gaps and re-plan as needed
  • Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates
  • Lead measurements to help the team understand and measure success, including quality and usage scale
  • Advocate for user and company values when leading the team to convergence on key open questions
  • Lead early feedback collection from internal dogfooding during feature convergence
  • Reflect on how the team operates and propose new ways to enable more effective processes

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.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Apple Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

1,065

FY2026

Approval rate

99.0%

FY2026

LCA certified

9,221

FY2026

Entry-level share

5.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+30%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-35%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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