Apple

Senior Manager, Spatial Platform Engineering, Vision Products Group

Apple$150K — $200K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of engineering management experience
  • Proven ability to build and lead high-performing software teams
  • Skilled in hiring and mentoring engineers across various levels
  • Strong technical expertise in framework and API development
  • Experience delivering advanced internal tooling for complex systems
  • Proficiency in object-oriented programming, primarily Swift
  • Excellent communication skills for team and leadership representation

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team focused on foundational frameworks and APIs
  • Set technical direction for on-device frameworks and advanced tooling
  • Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews
  • Coach and mentor engineers, fostering their development
  • Collaborate with QA and other teams to ensure quality delivery
  • Adapt team priorities and designs in response to evolving AI landscape
  • Translate complex requirements into actionable roadmaps

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in a rapidly evolving field
  • Chance to make significant technical contributions to impactful projects
  • Collaborative team environment with architects and specialists
  • Potential for leadership development in an innovative company
  • Exposure to both technical and managerial aspects of engineering
Full Job Description
The Vision Products Group is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team responsible for the foundational frameworks, APIs, and advanced internal tooling that power critical system experiences. You will build and scale the team while continuing to make direct technical contributions to its hardest architectural problems. You will set technical direction, hire and develop engineers, and ship the foundation of amazing user experiences that surprise and delight.

Description

We are a team of architects and specialists building the foundational frameworks and APIs that underpin critical system experiences. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to grow and lead this team - someone who can scale headcount thoughtfully, raise the technical bar, and continue to contribute directly to the most challenging problems.

You will be responsible for setting technical direction across two complementary surfaces: the on-device frameworks and APIs that ship in our products, and the advanced tooling and evaluation harnesses the team builds to inspect complex data, validate self-consistency, and triage unexpected behavior. You should be comfortable participating in architecture discussions, articulating design tradeoffs, and delivering highly optimized code in performance-critical environments - while also coaching engineers, partnering with QA and adjacent framework teams, and being accountable for the overall quality and timely delivery of what your team ships.

This team operates in a space where the underlying AI landscape is evolving rapidly, and the assumptions and requirements that shape our work can change dramatically from one quarter to the next. You will need strong fluency with the current state of the art and a track record of staying close to it, so that you can keep the team nimble - re-scoping priorities, adapting designs, and re-planning roadmaps as the problem space shifts beneath you.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum 10 years of engineering management experience

Track record of building, leading, and growing high-performing software engineering teams

Experience hiring across a range of levels and developing engineers through mentorship, feedback, and leadership opportunities

Strong technical foundation in framework and API development, with the ability to participate hands-on in architecture, design, and code review

Experience delivering advanced internal tooling - evaluation harnesses, data inspection tools, and triage workflows for complex, multi-signal systems

Strong command of object-oriented programming (Swift preferred)

Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to set direction and represent the team to senior leadership and cross-functional partners

Ability to translate ambiguous, high-level requirements into a roadmap that a team can execute against

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience managing managers, or a clear track record of mentoring engineers into leadership roles

Experience or interest in Spatial Computing

API design experience

Experience with iOS / macOS development

Fluency with the current AI landscape and the ability to adapt quickly as it evolves

Experience designing or operating evaluation, validation, or triage tooling for complex on-device systems

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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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
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$294.1 billion
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