Apple

Engineering Manager, AI Data Platforms & Quality

Apple$162K — $195K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years leading data engineering teams for large-scale systems
  • Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and Kubernetes
  • Proficiency in building data pipelines, APIs, and production-grade data products
  • Deep understanding of AI data lifecycle management and quality control
  • Strong knowledge of modern data architectures like lakes and lakehouses
  • Experience with technologies like Python, SQL, Spark, and Kafka
  • Ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead the engineering team to develop next-generation AI data platforms
  • Define technical strategies for transforming enterprise data into AI-ready assets
  • Drive the development of scalable AI-powered data products
  • Implement data quality measures to ensure trusted data for intelligent applications
  • Collaborate with AI/ML and business teams to enhance data asset quality
  • Oversee the establishment of governance and metadata management frameworks
  • Manage the design and execution of complex data engineering projects

Benefits

  • Strong focus on career development and leadership growth
  • Opportunities to work on cutting-edge AI solutions
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Access to state-of-the-art tools and technologies
  • Flexible work arrangements and supportive company culture
Full Job Description
Manufacturing Systems and Infrastructure (MSI) team is an engineering organization under the Product Operations org. MSI is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of systems tools, services, and applications required to efficiently run manufacturing operations at scale across global factory sites.

The ideal candidate is a strong engineering leader with deep expertise in data platforms, AI data engineering, and modern AI application architectures. This leader will build and scale the foundational capabilities for AI data lifecycle management-including data ingestion, curation, validation, quality, governance, metadata management, and observability-while delivering scalable AI-powered data products and platforms. Success in this role requires close partnership with AI/ML, product, and business teams to accelerate the development of high-quality data assets that fuel enterprise AI innovation.

Description

As the Engineering Manager, AI Data Platforms & Quality within the MSI organization, you will lead the team's expanded charter to build next-generation AI data products, data platforms, and data quality capabilities that enable GenAI, agentic AI, and embodied AI initiatives. You will define and drive the technical strategy for transforming enterprise, operational, and multimodal data into trusted, AI-ready assets that power intelligent applications, AI agents, analytics, and automated workflows.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience leading solution and data engineering teams building large-scale, production-grade systems.

Strong background in data engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-based data platforms.

Proven experience designing and building scalable data products, data pipelines, APIs, and platform services.

Experience with AI data lifecycle management, including dataset curation, validation, quality evaluation, metadata management, lineage, and governance.

Strong expertise in AI Data Platforms & Engineering, including Python, SQL, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, data pipelines, distributed systems, and modern data lake/lakehouse architectures.

Experience building AI Data Curation & Quality capabilities, including dataset engineering, validation frameworks, data profiling, observability, and data quality metrics.

Understanding of GenAI enablement technologies, including LLM applications, RAG architectures, embeddings, and AI agent workflows.

Experience with cloud and infrastructure technologies, including AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and scalable production systems.

Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy, drive architecture decisions, lead complex execution, and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building AI data platforms or infrastructure supporting LLM applications and AI products.

Experience with multimodal data including text, image, video, sensor, or operational datasets.

Experience building data quality frameworks, AI evaluation pipelines, or dataset management platforms.

Experience translating emerging AI technologies into scalable enterprise solutions.

Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across organizations.

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
Market Cap
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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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