Engineering Program Manager: Speech Understanding / Generation

Apple•Cupertino, CA

About The Position

The Engineering Program Manager will lead high-impact initiatives on Apple’s Siri Speech team, driving delivery and adoption of core speech technologies spanning speech understanding and generation. The work supports products and features across the Apple ecosystem, including Dictation, Siri Voices, FaceTime Live Captions, Voicemail Transcription, AirPods Live Translation, and Live Rewind on Apple Watch. The role collaborates with Siri engineering teams and cross-functional partners throughout Apple to deliver speech capabilities, synthesize partner requirements, prioritize needs, and integrate them into the broader Speech roadmap. The manager is responsible for shipping speech features in Siri, expanding adoption across internal and external use cases, and supporting partner teams across the ecosystem. The position includes planning and maintaining schedules, dependencies, critical paths, and status communications; managing risks and mitigations; resolving issues and coordinating priorities across teams; communicating program status and critical issues to executives; facilitating engineering and design alignment; driving delivery and deployment; and continuously improving team processes.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in software project or program management for consumer products.
Experience with software powered by statistical learning, including machine learning and/or deep learning, and practical exposure to foundation models such as LLMs, multimodal models, or generative AI technologies.
Excellent project management skills, including structuring projects and managing multiple cross-functional work streams.
Proven track record of leading and shipping multiple complex cross-functional projects simultaneously.
Ability to navigate ambiguity, identify critical and urgent work, set priorities, and defend trade-offs.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation, and influence.
Experience working cross-functionally with people at all levels of seniority and leadership.
BS, MS, or PhD focused in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with voice assistant technologies.
Direct experience or exposure to frontier models, advanced model evaluation, pre-training or fine-tuning pipelines, or state-of-the-art AI architectures.
Familiarity with machine-learning development workflows, including model evaluation, quality metrics, and data pipelines.
Strong analytical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills.
Proficiency in Agile and software development lifecycle processes.
Ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly and independently manage complex project objectives.

Responsibilities

Create and manage project schedules, dependencies, critical paths, and systematic status communications.
Manage risks and mitigations, and re-plan as circumstances warrant.
Drive alignment across the organization and between teams.
Proactively identify issues and solutions, and marshal resources to resolve them.
Coordinate issue identification, task prioritization, and tracking of schedule, product-quality, and cross-functional dependency risks.
Provide clear, timely, objective program status updates and communicate critical issues to the executive team.
Coordinate discussions and break down complex issues into topics that support engineering and design alignment.
Drive on-time delivery and deployment, identify development and feasibility needs, and establish checkpoints and status updates.
Reflect on team operations and propose and implement improvements to how the team delivers value to customers.
Synthesize partner requirements, prioritize critical needs, and integrate them into the broader Speech roadmap.
Ship high-impact speech features in Siri and scale adoption across internal and external use cases.
Champion partner team success across the Apple ecosystem.