Apple

AIML - Quality Engineering Manager, Responsible AI and Safety

Apple • $162K — $195K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of technical team management or leadership experience
  • Experience with ML evaluation, production ML systems, or test/CI infrastructure at scale
  • Strong engineering skills with production-quality code (Python or similar)
  • Experience across multiple platforms or ability to quickly adapt to new ones
  • Experience with human-labeled or crowd-sourced evaluation data, including label noise reasoning

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Quality Platform Engineering function within Responsible AI
  • Build and nurture a strong team culture from the ground up
  • Establish connections between Quality Platform Engineering and Product Evaluations & Research
  • Ensure fast safety signal and coverage improvements translate into actionable engineering decisions
  • Make product recommendations in ambiguous situations with limited data
  • Prioritize team capacity against high-risk platforms and use cases

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI safety initiatives
  • Collaborative and innovative team environment
  • Access to diverse hardware platforms and form factors
  • Professional development and growth opportunities
  • Engagement in impactful engineering decisions that shape product safety
Full Job Description
Description

This role leads Apple's Quality Platform Engineering function within Responsible AI - the team responsible for giving engineering teams across Apple Intelligence fast, trustworthy safety signal before code merges, and for extending safety testing coverage to every hardware platform and form factor Apple ships. Most of this role's impact will come from two things: building a strong team and a healthy team culture from the ground up, and establishing the flywheel that connects Quality Platform Engineering to Product Evaluations & Research and Post-Ship Insights - so fast signal, coverage gaps, and pipeline improvements consistently translate into real engineering decisions and clear leadership visibility, rather than one-off dashboards nobody acts on.You should be technically fluent - comfortable with evaluation pipelines, production ML and agentic systems, and cross-platform testing - enough to earn credibility with the team, ask sharp questions, and evaluate hard tradeoffs with good judgment. This role moves at a fast pace, and you should be comfortable making product recommendations in ambiguous situations, often with limited or imperfect data. Just as important are excellent communication, strong product sense to prioritize a team's limited capacity against Apple's highest-risk platforms and use cases, and a track record of hiring and developing technical teams.Prior experience managing or building technical teams is required. Prior exposure to ML evaluation, test infrastructure, or safety-adjacent engineering work is strongly preferred.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of technical team management or leadership experience

Experience with ML evaluation, production ML systems, or test/CI infrastructure at scale

Strong engineering skills and experience writing production-quality code (Python or similar)

Experience working across multiple platforms or hardware form factors, or a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly across unfamiliar platforms

Experience working with human-labeled or crowd-sourced evaluation data, including reasoning about label noise and inter-rater agreement

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working on Responsible AI, AI safety, or trust & safety-adjacent engineering

Experience with generative model evaluation and common failure modesStrong organizational and operational skills working with large, multi-functional, diverse teams

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent experience Familiarity with hardware/platform-specific testing considerations (e.g., on-device constraints, new form factors)

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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154,000 employees
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Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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