Sr. Software Development Engineering Manager, Siri AI Quality

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

Would you like to play a part in shipping groundbreaking technology for
large-scale systems, natural language, and artificial intelligence? Join the
Siri Ai Quality team at Apple! We interact with various engineering teams to
identify issues and test requirements, drive the quality of Siri features, and
build frameworks that support evaluation and qualification. You will work with
the people who craft the intelligent assistant that helps millions get things
done - just by asking! As a senior manager, you will play a critical role in
driving the qualification methods of various platforms and product areas for
Siri. You will drive coverage and fidelity of testing and evaluation for
pre-ship readiness for a wide range of AIML products. You will craft new and
leverage existing methodologies and frameworks to validate the end-to-end
quality of new Siri features. Working alongside SW and ML engineering product
teams as a critical partner, you will utilize a suite of available libraries and
frameworks - test automation, LLM-based evaluators, and failure analysis tools -
and drive requirements for improving those.

DESCRIPTION

We are seeking an experienced senior engineering manager to lead Siri's
intelligent services and platforms (iPhone, HomePod, CarPlay, Apple Watch, iPad,
MacBook) evaluation and qualification. You will be responsible for partnerships
with product engineering that will drive the test and evaluation strategy,
frameworks and solutions that can scale. You will work alongside SW and ML
product engineering teams as a critical partner. You will need to drive
efficiency by adopting LLMs for testing and evaluation, including evaluators,
auto-triage of issues, and auto-error-attribution. This role will collaborate
with Product Engineering teams, create a quality strategy in partnership with
the roadmap, work on client integration frameworks. This is a fast-paced role
with high visibility, impact, and influence in building one of the most advanced
AI systems in the industry.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8+ years of leadership experience
• Experience with Machine Learning development and evaluation
• Experience with building and shipping products at scale
• Proven and consistent track record of forming partnerships to solve complex technical problems at scale, ideally for assistant-based products with a global customer base

Nice To Haves

• MS/PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related field
• Passion for product and customer experience
• Extensive experience delivering large-scale products or platforms, leveraging cross-functional partnerships to drive outcomes across multiple organizations
• Excellent understanding of an ML-based product lifecycle.
• Demonstrated depth of knowledge and application of statistics-based evaluation methodologies or user success metrics.
• Strong history of delivering innovation
• Ability to develop a long-term vision and execute strategies at scale while maintaining a grasp of technical details for better decision-making
• Experience with VP-level presentations and reporting

Responsibilities

• Driving the qualification methods of various platforms and product areas for Siri
• Driving coverage and fidelity of testing and evaluation for pre-ship readiness for a wide range of AIML products
• Crafting new and leverage existing methodologies and frameworks to validate the end-to-end quality of new Siri features
• Driving the test and evaluation strategy, frameworks and solutions that can scale
• Driving efficiency by adopting LLMs for testing and evaluation, including evaluators, auto-triage of issues, and auto-error-attribution
• Creating a quality strategy in partnership with the roadmap
• Working on client integration frameworks

What This Job Offers

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