Senior Machine Learning Manager, Apple Services Engineering AI/ML
- Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience in AI/ML, with 3+ years in leadership roles.
- Track record of leading engineering teams from exploration & design to implementation, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with ML libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, or similar.
- Deep understanding of modern ML architectures, pipelines, and evaluation techniques at scale.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- 10+ years in AI/ML, including 5+ years in leadership roles.
- Experience in building or fine-tuning large-scale foundation models.
- Familiarity with agentic workflows, RAG, vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone), and knowledge graphs.
- Passion for building core capabilities and driving collaboration and reuse.
- Contributions to open-source ML/NLP projects or relevant research publications in well known conferences.
- Proven ability to recruit and mentor high-performing, collaborative teams.
- Skilled in making strategic trade-offs to enable long-term progress.
- Deep technical expertise and experience applying AI/ML at scale.
- Able to connect technical decisions to real-world user impact.
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