About The Position
The Apple Watch Software team is looking for an exceptionally dedicated software engineering manager to lead a new team focused on the intelligence infrastructure behind Apple's fitness experiences. This team builds the datasets, evaluation pipelines, prompts, and tooling that turn a promising model capability into something we are proud to ship. In addition to building infrastructure, the team partners with the other fitness teams to bring unified intelligence capabilities to features across Apple Watch and iPhone. This role involves shipping real features alongside partner teams, mentoring engineers, growing the team by hiring, and establishing new team practices in the domain. It requires a passion for iteration as the space continues to evolve. We value communication skills, integrity, and creativity, and aspire to build diverse, balanced and dynamic teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years industry experience.
- 3+ years experience leading a technical team and collaborating across organizational boundaries, or demonstrated readiness through sustained technical leadership of a team.
- Deep technical understanding and hands-on experience with software development and lifecycle management.
- Experience shipping user-facing features built on large language models, carried through the iteration required to reach production quality.
- Hands-on experience with evaluation methodology, prompt development and tuning, and building the tooling and harnesses that make that work repeatable.
- Strong product sense and the ability to balance technical feasibility with user experience.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Nice To Haves
- Previous worked in Health and Fitness Client-Side Knowledge
Responsibilities
- Manage and support a small team of deeply technical engineers working at the intersection of applied AI and fitness.
- Oversee the development of offline pipelines and evaluation harnesses.
- Ensure engineers write production Swift that ships in the OS and runs both on device and in server-side environments.
- Collaborate closely with the Activity, Workout, and Fitness+ engineering teams, as well as with Siri and platform intelligence teams across Apple.
- Develop and maintain the tools and harnesses that help engineers across the organization build and evaluate intelligence-backed features.
- Ship real features alongside partner teams.
- Mentor engineers.
- Grow the team by hiring.
- Establish new team practices in the domain.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
