Apple

Senior AI Enablement Engineering Manager, Apps Team

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience
  • Proven leadership in platform engineering or developer experience
  • Hands-on knowledge of integrating AI tools in software development
  • Demonstrated ability to apply product thinking to technical decisions
  • Strong communication skills to influence diverse stakeholders
  • Proficiency in navigating the software development lifecycle

Responsibilities

  • Set direction and prioritize initiatives for the AI Enablement team
  • Identify and address integration bottlenecks in application development
  • Utilize AI solutions to optimize development and transition to scalable solutions
  • Evangelize AI-powered tooling to foster cultural and operational change
  • Coach team members to maintain product discipline and engineering rigor
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to enhance engineering standards
  • Drive adoption of new technologies and shift engineering culture

Benefits

  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Access to professional development resources
  • Opportunity to lead high-impact initiatives
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • An innovative work environment focused on AI advancements
Full Job Description
The AI Enablement team will be at the forefront of empowering the Apps organization to build, scale and ship more quickly and confidently through AI-powered developer tooling. As the leader, you will drive this high-impact team responsible for evangelism, consultation and working directly with Application Software development teams to optimize and evolve how we build applications - leveraging AI-powered tooling to accelerate workflows, reduce friction, and elevate engineering standards across the organization. This role sits at the intersection of engineering excellence, build, integration, infrastructure, product thinking, and organizational influence.

Description

As the leader of the AI Enablement team, you are responsible for setting direction, prioritizing and planning, and holding the bar for what optimizations get built and why. Day-to-day, you'll partner with cross-functional stakeholders to identify development/build and integration bottlenecks and determine how to use AI solutions to optimize and transition into scalable platform solutions, while coaching your team to operate with product discipline and engineering rigor. You'll serve as an internal evangelist for AI-powered developer tooling, shaping culture and capability across engineering organizations- bringing a relentless growth mindset, thriving in ambiguity rather than needing certainty, and staying restless for what's next rather than settling into the status quo.

Minimum Qualifications

Demonstrated AI proficiency, with hands-on understanding of how AI tools and platforms fit into modern Application software development workflows, as well as having led the implementation of AI into software development processes. Using AI to build Applications.

Proven experience leading a platform engineering, developer experience, or software tooling organization as a formal engineering manager or technical lead

Additionally, minimum 5 years of experience as a SW engineer

Track record of applying product-minded thinking to infrastructure or developer tooling - making build-vs-buy decisions grounded in developer impact, not just technical possibility

Strong background in engineering-aware program management, with the ability to understand and navigate the full idea-to-shipped-code lifecycle

Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with experience influencing senior technical and non-technical stakeholders

Demonstrated ability to evangelize new technologies or platforms internally, driving adoption and shifting engineering culture

Preferred Qualifications

Experience specifically in a Platform Engineering Lead or Developer Experience (DevEx) Lead role with direct responsibility for internal tooling ecosystems

Familiarity with SRE principles, on-call culture, and reliability engineering as applied to internal developer platforms

Skilled in translating developer productivity metrics and qualitative feedback into compelling strategic narratives for leadership

Deep expertise in AI/ML developer tooling, LLM integration patterns, or MLOps infrastructure at scale

Hands-on experience with developer platform technologies such as CI/CD orchestration, internal IDPs (Internal Developer Platforms), or AI-assisted code tools

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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