Software Engineering Manager

Description

Evaluation at Apple's scale is an engineering problem, not a reporting problem. Our internal customers need to know whether a change worked while they can still act on it. This team builds the systems that make that possible, driving the development of the tooling, services, and automation that enable a developer to go from a question about quality to a verified fix. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will lead a small, senior team and remain deeply in the code and architecture.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building production software (e.g., Python, Swift, Go, or Java), with recent hands-on delivery.
• 2+ years leading engineers, as an engineering manager or as a tech lead responsible for a team's technical direction and delivery.
• Demonstrably hands-on today: you set architecture, write design documents, review code, and build.
• Practical experience applying LLMs or AI agents to real engineering workflows.
• Experience with developer tooling, test infrastructure, CI/CD, or evaluation and ML platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Depth in agentic systems with human-in-the-loop review, and the reliability, cost, and trust problems they raise in production.
• Experience designing and operating distributed backend services and APIs in production.
• Cloud infrastructure and container orchestration, data platforms, or large-scale test and release infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Apple's development and testing toolchain, and with device automation.
• A track record of driving internal adoption of a platform.
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership and the ability to drive quality decisions with senior stakeholders.
• Experience hiring and growing a team, including senior engineers.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills, and comfort operating in ambiguity.