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Software Engineering Manager, Fitness Intelligence Infrastructure - Watch Software

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino, CA$206.2k - $356.4kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software engineering manager role leading a new team focused on intelligence infrastructure for Apple Watch fitness experiences, building datasets, evaluation pipelines, prompts, and tooling, and partnering with fitness and Siri/platform teams to ship intelligence-backed features across Apple Watch and iPhone.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with feature-owning teams to define what the intelligence layer must deliver, then deliver it, co-owning outcomes rather than surfaces.
  • Own the craft of iteration to shipping quality: prompt development, tool and function definitions, scenario construction, and the loop between them.
  • Establish golden datasets and evaluation pipelines that give the organization a trustworthy answer to whether a capability is good enough to ship.
  • Drive the infrastructure that lets features scale past their first release, including additional languages and regions, broader feature awareness, and richer interactivity.
  • Track how the state of the art in applied AI is moving, and make deliberate calls about which new techniques are ready to bring into shipping experiences and which are not.
  • Hire, grow, and coach engineers, and set the culture and engineering practices for a new team.
  • Design for user privacy from the first sketch, because fitness and health data deserves nothing less.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • A track record of influencing outcomes across organizational boundaries, delivering work that other teams’ features depend on.
  • Experience building datasets and measurement systems, and using them to make quality tradeoffs defensible.
  • Experience shipping production Swift, including API design, performance and memory budgets.
  • Experience spanning both offline evaluation and production inference paths.
  • Background in health, fitness, or another domain where user trust and data sensitivity shape the design.
  • Experience building a team and its engineering practices from the ground up.
  • Ability to work with technology partners at all levels of the stack.

Skills

Required:Leadership of a technical teamSwift production developmentLarge language models (LLMs)Evaluation methodology & prompt engineering

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments (eligibility)
  • Relocation assistance (eligibility)
  • Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Discretionary employee stock units (equity) accessibility to stock programs
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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