AI/ML - Sr Engineering Program Manager, Siri Natural Language Understanding

Job Description

Summary

Posted: Oct 25, 2022 Weekly Hours: 40 Role Number: 200398908 Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you love taking on challenges that create a positive impact? Are you passionate about empowering many ground-breaking intelligent experiences to be made? The Siri Assistant team is building groundbreaking technology... and we are looking for people like you! We’re looking for a strong Engineering Program Manager who will lead cross functional, large scale project to improve Siri Natural Language Understanding technology. The individual has demonstrated a proven track record of building and maintaining complex software platforms, tools and processes that deliver new end-to-end experiences that delight customers.

Key Qualifications

Key Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in project or program management shipping experiences and features driven by machine-learned systems to worldwide users
• Excellent project management skills including project structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently
• Thorough understanding of testing, build and release processes for complex software
• Demonstrated skill of negotiating and distilling complex technical requirements from multiple partners into a coherent long term platform roadmap
• Solid knowledge of technical system architecture and systems design tradeoffs
• Demonstrated data-driven decision-making skills, including experience leading metrics-driven projects or programs.
• Superior group facilitation, interviewing and influence skills
• Ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly and independently manage complex project objectives
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation and influence
• Ability to independently draft and present deliverables, recommendations and communication strategies

Description

Description You will coordinate and drive early engagements on product architecture, feature definition and program execution. This includes collaborating with all partner organizations relevant for a project, You will: Communicate: Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates and critical issues as needed to executive team Coordinate: Coordinate discussions and break down complex issues into discussion topics to drive engineering and design alignment with support from project team, maintaining an orientation toward teamwork and collaboration Plan: Create and manage project timeline with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status. Manage risks and mitigations, and re- plan as events warrant. Drive alignment across the organization and between teams Execute: Drive on time delivery and deployment, identifying development and feasibility needs, establishing achievements for checkpoints and status updates Problem solve: Proactively identify issues and solutions, and marshal resources vital to attack and resolve. Coordinate with teams to identify issues, prioritize tasks and track risks to schedule and product quality, including cross-functional dependencies

Education & Experience

Education & Experience Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements

• Voice assistant experience is a plus
• Prior PM or engineering experience in speech recognition, natural language understanding, search, data pipelines, and/or A/B testing
• M.S. or Ph.D. degree with a focus in machine learning, data mining or statistics