Apple

Software Engineering Manager, Fitness Intelligence Infrastructure - Watch Software

Apple$162K — $195K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years industry experience
  • 3+ years experience leading a technical team
  • Deep technical understanding of software development
  • Experience shipping user-facing features with large language models
  • Hands-on experience with evaluation methodology and tooling
  • Strong product sense balancing technical feasibility and user experience
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

  • Manage and support a team of technical engineers
  • Build and maintain intelligence infrastructure for fitness features
  • Collaborate with other teams to deliver integrated capabilities
  • Mentor engineers and foster team development
  • Ship features in collaboration with partner teams
  • Establish new team practices in the evolving domain

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and team building
  • Engagement in cutting-edge technology and AI application
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams at Apple
  • Contribution to health and fitness technology impacting users
  • Diverse and dynamic team environment
Full Job Description
The Apple Watch Software team is looking for an exceptionally dedicated software engineering manager to lead a new team focused on the intelligence infrastructure behind Apple's fitness experiences. This team builds the datasets, evaluation pipelines, prompts, and tooling that turn a promising model capability into something we are proud to ship. In addition to building infrastructure, the team partners with the other fitness teams to bring unified intelligence capabilities to features across Apple Watch and iPhone.

This role involves shipping real features alongside partner teams, mentoring engineers, growing the team by hiring, and establishing new team practices in the domain. It requires a passion for iteration as the space continues to evolve. We value communication skills, integrity, and creativity, and aspire to build diverse, balanced and dynamic teams.

Description

In this role your primary responsibility will be to manage and support a small team of deeply technical engineers working at the intersection of applied AI and fitness. Alongside the offline pipelines and evaluation harnesses, your engineers write production Swift that ships in the OS and runs both on device and in server-side environments. The team collaborates closely with the Activity, Workout, and Fitness+ engineering teams, as well as with Siri and platform intelligence teams across Apple, and develops and maintains the tools and harnesses that help engineers across the organization build and evaluate intelligence-backed features.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years industry experience.

3+ years experience leading a technical team and collaborating across organizational boundaries, or demonstrated readiness through sustained technical leadership of a team.

Deep technical understanding and hands-on experience with software development and lifecycle management.

Experience shipping user-facing features built on large language models, carried through the iteration required to reach production quality.

Hands-on experience with evaluation methodology, prompt development and tuning, and building the tooling and harnesses that make that work repeatable.

Strong product sense and the ability to balance technical feasibility with user experience.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications

A track record of influencing outcomes across organizational boundaries, delivering work that other teams' features depend on.

Experience building datasets and measurement systems, and using them to make quality tradeoffs defensible.

Experience shipping production Swift, including API design, performance and memory budgets.

Experience spanning both offline evaluation and production inference paths.

Background in health, fitness, or another domain where user trust and data sensitivity shape the design.

Experience building a team and its engineering practices from the ground up.

Ability to work with technology partners at all levels of the stack.

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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