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Senior AI Enablement Engineering Manager, Apps Team

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino, California$267.8k - $401.7kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Leadership role leading the AI Enablement team to empower the Apps organization with AI-powered developer tooling. Focus on evangelism, consultation, and collaboration with Application Software teams to optimize how we build applications, leveraging AI tools to accelerate workflows, elevate engineering standards, and drive scalable platform solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team spanning developer consulting and platform functions, balancing technical depth with people development
  • Drive a product-minded culture on the team — consistently asking ‘why are we building this?’ before ‘how do we build it?’
  • Own the team’s roadmap from ideation through delivery, ensuring alignment with broader engineering and AI optimization
  • Partner with senior engineering and operations stakeholders to identify high-leverage developer pain points and prioritize platform investments accordingly
  • Partner with cross-Apple leadership teams to maintain visibility into their roadmap and technical direction, channeling relevant learnings back to Apps to prevent duplicative investment
  • Evangelize AI developer tooling capabilities internally, building awareness and adoption across engineering teams
  • Establish and communicate a clear vision for developer experience and platform reliability that earns organizational trust
  • Represent the team in cross-functional forums, presenting strategies, trade-offs, and outcomes with clarity and conviction
  • Mentor and develop engineers across consulting and platform support disciplines, fostering a collaborative, high-accountability team environment
  • Demonstrated AI proficiency with hands-on understanding of AI tools and platforms in modern Application software development workflows; experience leading AI integration into software development processes
  • Proven experience leading a platform engineering, developer experience, or software tooling organization as an engineering manager or technical lead
  • Minimum 5 years of experience as a SW engineer
  • Track record of product-minded thinking applied to infrastructure or developer tooling with build-vs-buy decisions grounded in developer impact
  • Strong background in engineering-aware program management across idea-to-shipped-code lifecycle
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills with experience influencing senior stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to evangelize new technologies or platforms internally and drive adoption

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated AI proficiency, with hands-on understanding of how AI tools and platforms fit into modern Application software development workflows, as well as having led the implementation of AI into software development processes
  • Proven experience leading a platform engineering, developer experience, or software tooling organization as a formal engineering manager or technical lead
  • Additionally, minimum 5 years of experience as a SW engineer
  • Track record of applying product-minded thinking to infrastructure or developer tooling — making build-vs-buy decisions grounded in developer impact, not just technical possibility
  • Strong background in engineering-aware program management, with the ability to understand and navigate the full idea-to-shipped-code lifecycle
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with experience influencing senior technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to evangelize new technologies or platforms internally, driving adoption and shifting engineering culture
  • Experience specifically in a Platform Engineering Lead or Developer Experience (DevEx) Lead role with direct responsibility for internal tooling ecosystems
  • Familiarity with SRE principles, on-call culture, and reliability engineering as applied to internal developer platforms
  • Skilled in translating developer productivity metrics and qualitative feedback into compelling strategic narratives for leadership
  • Deep expertise in AI/ML developer tooling, LLM integration patterns, or MLOps infrastructure at scale
  • Hands-on experience with developer platform technologies such as CI/CD orchestration, internal IDPs (Internal Developer Platforms), or AI-assisted code tools

Skills

Required:AI-powered developer tooling evangelismPlatform engineering leadershipEngineering program managementCommunication & stakeholder influenceAI/ML tooling & MLOps
Nice to have:Product-minded infrastructure decisionsCI/CD / IDP tooling

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • tuition reimbursement for education related to advancing career at Apple
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation potential
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
Last updated Sep 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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