Developer Intelligence Partnerships Engineering Manager

Apple • Cupertino, CA

14h

About The Position

The Developer Experience team provides the tools to develop software for all of Apple's innovative platforms, namely Xcode and the surrounding ecosystem of tools and frameworks. Intelligence is changing the way we build software: from the smallest project to the biggest product. Apple creates tools infused with intelligence to empower developers to be creative and to build apps that reach the widest audiences. This team is responsible for understanding advances in agentic coding & the underlying models, and how to bring the best of those models to our tools while also bringing the best of Apple’s platforms to those models. The team is the interface between partners teams within and outside of Apple, and the rest of the Developer Intelligence components.

We’re looking for a manager who loves to sit at the cross section of agentic coding, internal & external relationships, and Apple’s platforms. Working on this team covers everything from integrating new models, building relationships with teams, evaluating new techniques to get the most out of each prompt, to researching and implementing and augmenting new protocols and standards. This position requires a creative, curious, and self-motivated individual. You should love to learn, love to work with a variety of teams and disciplines to bring the best experience for our developers, and enjoy ambiguous problems to explore new paths, respond quickly to partners, and lead a team of engineers delivering key frameworks for Developer Intelligence.

Requirements

• Experience managing or technically leading a team of engineers shipping production software
• Constant curiosity to learn new technologies, discover new techniques, and better understand the team’s place in a dynamic technology area
• Clear, open, and collaborative communication skills; capable of working in a multi-disciplinary team and with relationships within Apple and with external partners
• Ability to react to many sources of signal and feedback, figure out which ones need to be acted on; and quickly guide efforts across the team, or with teams in and out of Apple
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: can demonstrate and articulate how to write clean, maintainable code and imbue that to a team of engineers
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science or a related field

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with building LLM backed features, esp. evaluations
• Familiarity with Swift & Apple’s developer ecosystem
• Portfolio of work (software or otherwise)

Responsibilities

• Integrating new models
• Building relationships with teams
• Evaluating new techniques to get the most out of each prompt
• Researching and implementing and augmenting new protocols and standards
• Leading a team of engineers delivering key frameworks for Developer Intelligence

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager