The Senior Engineering Program Manager at Apple will lead a large cross-functional project aimed at enhancing the experience of over 1 billion customers. This role focuses on building search infrastructure and delivering innovative search products using advanced AI technologies, including Large Language Models. The program manager will drive consensus among diverse teams, manage project schedules, and ensure clear communication of project status. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in machine learning and software development, along with excellent program management skills.

• 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, aptitude for problem solving, and the ability to make sophisticated trade-offs
• 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

• 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

• 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.