Senior Software Engineering Manager, Incubation team
The Intelligent System Experience (ISE) Incubation team is looking for a leader to advance its mission to build inspiring prototypes and help turn creative ideas into innovative new products and features. We are a diverse team of platform engineers, ML engineers, and designers that take big, fuzzy ideas about what might be possible, and then turn them into concrete prototypes and livable software.
This role is best suited for someone who excels at the intersection of technology, creativity, and user experience. The ideal candidate has breadth and depth in Apple's ecosystem, along with competence and experience working with modern ML and GenAI models. The emphasis of this role is to guide the team to generate and prototype innovative ideas, fostering cross-functional collaboration across the company, and iterating on concepts to deliver transformative experiences for Apple users.
Description
We are looking for somebody who has a strong opinion about what makes for unique and compelling ideas, and can help guide a team in making those ideas real. A successful candidate will be able to live at the intersection of technology and experience. They will need to understand which technologies are worth developing because they could offer powerful new experiences to our users - and how to push for unique, compelling new experiences that push technology forward.
We work across organizational scales, internally with small teams, across our entire team, and across the company.
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The products we build are part prototype, part proof of concept and part sales pitch, so clear communication, understanding of current platform capabilities, cutting edge ML technology, a design sense, and an ability to advocate for ideas and for the team are all key skills for this role.
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of leadership or management experience, including growing teams with diverse skill sets.
Any deeper experience in Apple platform technologies, experience with cutting edge language or vision ML technologies, or a design background.
Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent skills and work experience
This role requires a diverse skillset and leading a team to create innovative products. A background in software engineering fundamentals, or application design would be ideal.
Minimum Qualifications
Track record of prototyping and 0-1 thinking, and moving an idea or concept from ideation through prototyping to decision making.
Team and people management experience, scaling a team to 20+ engineers, designers, and scientists.
Experience with Apple platforms - including a general understanding of the design paradigms, general technologies & capabilities available.
Understanding of ML fundamentals and experience working with modern GenAI models.
Communication across diverse skill sets and an ability to communicate effectively with designers, engineers, and executives.
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