Sr Engineering Program Manager, Machine Learning FM

Key Skills

Data pipelines, Machine learning techniques, Natural Language Understanding-NLU, Program Management

Job Description

Specific Responsibilities Include:

• Lead high profile Foundation Model programs, responsible for roadmapping, establishing goals with DRIs and reporting statuses to executives regularly and succinctly

• Drive consensus across multiple groups with varying opinions & needs. Influence entire teams around a common purpose and drive conference on the plan of execution

• Create and manage project schedules with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status

• Proactively identify and manage risks, close gaps with the ability to switch gears on projects in an agile manner

• Keep teams on critical path with efforts to minimize distractions

• Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates and one-off reviews as needed to executive team

• Keep an eye on any potential gaps across dependency teams and proactively promote regular communications on common source of truth

• Proactive and regular insurance of alignments across all stakeholder teams when new factors arise

• Plan yearly and quarterly budgets for data acquisition

• Maintain awareness of the Privacy and Legal aspects of data management and regional regulations, ensuring the team is meeting company-wide requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in program management, particularly in the data acquisition of ML technologies, international locales experience is a plus.
• Strong understanding of machine learning concepts and technologies. Detailed understanding of building, evaluating and release management processes for ML systems.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated skill of negotiating and distilling sophisticated technical requirements from multiple partners into a coherent long term platform roadmap
• Experience leading cross functional security and privacy initiatives and collaborating with Legal, Privacy Engineering, Security and other teams across the organization to ensure compliance with privacy policies and security mandates
• Excellent project management skills including project structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across the organization
• Ability to independently draft and present deliverables, recommendations and communication strategies
• Bachelor's or Master's degree. EE/CS/CE or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior PM or engineering experience in search, speech recognition, natural language understanding, data pipelines is a plus
• Experience with international locales experience

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 $165,500 and $293,800, 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. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

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