AIML - Sr Engineering Program Manager, FM Evaluation
Apple - Seattle, WA
posted 4 days ago
About the position
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It's the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you'll do more than join something - you'll add something. We're looking for a strong Engineering Program Manager with a proven track record of driving highly cross-functional projects dependent on innovative machine learning technologies. You will work with cross-functional software engineering teams to develop data collection and product evaluation strategies. You will work with data science, data engineering, annotation operations, and privacy to create a plan and execute on these requirements in a highly deadline driven environment. These efforts are critical in driving quality improvement for products to over 1 billion customers, your role is essential to creating the highest quality user experience that Apple customers expect and love.
Responsibilities
- Create and manage project schedules with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status.
- Manage risks and mitigations, and re-plan as events warrant.
- Drive alignment across the organization and between teams.
- Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to define human annotation requirements vital to launch and maintain premier Apple software products.
- Work with data science, data engineering and research teams to develop data collection and evaluation solutions.
- Work with annotation operation teams to optimize and manage human data collection and evaluations efforts.
- Work with engineering, privacy, and legal teams to develop safe data collection.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Computer Science, etc.) or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience managing large-scale, machine learning-powered product programs and delivering client/server software across large organizations (100+ people).
- Proven program management, analytical, and cross-functional leadership skills with experience driving data-driven decision-making and process improvement.
- Strong communication skills with expertise in negotiation, presentation, and influencing across teams.
Nice-to-haves
- Master's or PhD degree in Statistics, Business Intelligence, Computer Science, other Quantitative Sciences, or related field and equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience managing a program management team in AI powered product space, preferably experience in evaluation of MLAI products.
- Self-sufficient in analyzing and drawing conclusions about the quality and product opportunity from raw and refined product data
- Strong problem-solving skills with attention to details.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- A range of discounted products and free services
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
- Relocation assistance
- Opportunity to participate in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs
- Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
- Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount through Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
