AIML - Sr Engineering Program Manager, Innovation Seattle,Washington,United States Software and Services Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you love taking on challenges that create a positive impact? Are you passionate about empowering many ground-breaking intelligent experiences to be made? The Apple AIML org is building groundbreaking technology... and we are looking for people like you! Apple offers a collaborative work environment that fosters creativity and innovation. Every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each other's ideas stronger. That happens here because every one of us strives toward a common goal - crafting the best customer experiences. We’re looking for an outstanding Engineering Program Manager with a solid track record of driving highly cross-functional projects dependent on innovative machine learning technologies. This role is critical in driving quality improvement for products impacting over 1 billion customers, and is crucial to crafting the highest quality user experience that Apple customers expect and love. **Description** In this role you will build and run project timelines with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status. You will handle risks and mitigations, re-plan as events warrant and drive alignment across the organization and between teams. Additional responsibilities include: * Partner with cross-functional engineering teams and define key deliverables to measure quality of Apple Intelligence features with Privacy at the core of it. * Bring impact to billions of users with your ML expertise, passion for great user experiences and project management skills. * Work with data science and data engineering teams to develop data collection and evaluation solutions * Work with annotation operation teams to optimize and lead human data collection and evaluations efforts. * Work with engineering, privacy, and legal teams to develop safe data collection * Work with research teams to develop long-term evaluation solutions **Minimum Qualifications** + 8+ years of experience in driving large scale program building machine learning powered products + Excellent program management skills including program structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently with the capability to work across a large number of teams to enforce process and efficient outcomes in a data-driven environment + Experience working with data science dashboards, reporting and A/B Testing + Have personally orchestrated the delivery of multiple significant client/server software products requiring large organizations (100+) + Strong analytical skills and a curiosity to peel the onion to discover opportunities for impact and better user experience + Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation and influence **Key Qualifications** **Preferred Qualifications** + BS/MS in EE/CS/CE or equivalent **Education & Experience** **Additional Requirements** **Pay & Benefits** + At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $157,000 and $278,900, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. 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