Apple

On-device ML Engineering Manager (Tools & Services)

Apple$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
  • 2+ years of management experience
  • Knowledge of machine learning development and workflows
  • Experience delivering web services and developer tools
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Proficient in Python, Swift, Objective-C, or C/C++

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Performance Tools and Services team
  • Develop frontend web services for ML model introspection
  • Oversee backend web services supporting frontend operations
  • Manage on-device toolchain for performance data gathering
  • Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to enhance the ML platform
  • Support internal and external clients in ML development
  • Focus on improving the developer experience for on-device ML

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and career development
  • Collaborative work environment
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and resources
  • Ability to influence and shape Apple’s machine learning landscape
  • Participation in high-impact projects that affect millions of users
Full Job Description
The On-Device Machine Learning team at Apple is responsible for enabling the Research to Production lifecycle of cutting-edge machine learning models that power magical user experiences on Apple's hardware and software platforms.

The team builds critical infrastructure that begins with onboarding the latest machine learning architectures to Apple devices, optimization toolkits to optimize these models to better suit the target devices, machine learning compilers and runtimes to execute these models as efficiently as possible, and the benchmarking, analysis and debugging toolchain needed to improve on new model iterations.

This infrastructure underpins most of Apple's critical machine learning workflows across Camera, Siri, Health, Vision, etc., and as such is an integral part of Apple Intelligence.

Our group is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Performance Tools and Services team, with a focus on the tools, services, and infrastructure that make on-device ML performance measurable, understandable, and improvable. The team is responsible for the frontend web services for introspecting ML models and their on-device execution, the backend web services that power them, and the on-device toolchain that gathers low-level performance data, associates it with high-level (PyTorch) framework-level ops, and reports it. The team is also responsible for the infrastructure for running ML inference across fleets of devices.

Description

We are building the first end-to-end developer experience for ML development that, by taking advantage of Apple's vertical integration, allows developers to iterate on model authoring, optimization, transformation, execution, debugging, profiling and analysis.

This role focuses on giving ML developers fast, accurate, and actionable insight into how their models execute on Apple devices. We're looking for a manager that has proven experience in and passion for providing high quality developer tools and capabilities in the fast paced and dynamic space of ML.

As the manager in this role, you will lead a diverse team spanning full-stack web development, backend services, distributed systems, and low-level on-device performance tooling. You will partner with leaders across the organization and company to develop our platform while supporting clients internally and externally.

The role requires a solid technical understanding of ML execution on device, performance analysis and profiling, and the systems that connect low-level signals to framework-level (e.g., PyTorch) semantics.

Minimum Qualifications

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.

Two or more years of strong and validated management experience.

Knowledge of ML development and workflows, including at least one authoring framework experience (e.g., PyTorch).

Experience delivering web services and/or developer-facing tools, spanning frontend and backend.

Excellent communication skills.

Track record of creating clean software architectures, intuitive designs, and high-performance extensible software.

Solid programming skills in at least one of the following languages: Python, Swift, Objective-C, C/C++.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with on-device ML frameworks (Core ML, Win ML, ONNX, TF Lite or ExecuTorch).

Experience with performance profiling, benchmarking, and analysis tooling.

Experience building and operating infrastructure for running workloads across fleets of devices.

Experience associating low-level performance data with framework-level operations.

Experience with MLIR / LLVM compiler technologies.

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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$63.9 billion
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1976
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