Media Intelligence Engineering Program Manager
Cupertino, CAFull-timeSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
Apple’s Media, Graphics, & Compute team seeks an Engineering Program Manager to run software development work for Media Intelligence. The team builds systems and technologies behind intelligent media experiences across Apple products, including Photos, FaceTime, Camera, and system-wide features. The role works directly with software engineers and machine learning researchers to deliver features across Apple’s operating systems.
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Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number: 200691734-0836
Summary
Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.
Technology from the Media, Graphics, & Compute (MGC) team is at the heart of Apple's products. MGC is looking for an Engineering Program Manager to help run software development work for Media Intelligence. The team builds the systems and technologies behind intelligent media experiences across Apple's product line. These include apps such as Photos, FaceTime, and Camera, as well as system-wide features. You will work directly with software engineers and machine learning researchers to deliver new features across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS.
Description
The Media Intelligence team brings together systems and performance engineering, video and multimodal machine learning, and generative AI for image and video.
Minimum Qualifications
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5+ years of Project / Program Management in a high-tech environment.
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Experience delivering customer-facing client-side software features or projects from concept through delivery.
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Proven leadership on major, cross-functional software projects.
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Strong technical proficiency in machine learning (AIML), computer vision, video, or graphics.
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BS/MS (EE/CS/CE) or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications
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Excellent written and verbal presentation skills.
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Demonstrated ability to give succinct, accurate executive summaries of project status and complicated engineering situations.
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A track record of quickly understanding technical concepts in a wide range of fields.
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Experience managing ML-driven programs-- examples are model training and evaluation cycles, dataset dependencies, and moving research into production.
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Familiarity with generative AI, such as diffusion models, multimodal LLMs, and AI agents.
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Experience with on-device performance, power, and hardware acceleration trade-offs (GPU, Neural Engine, SIMD).
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Experience with video coding and processing systems (codecs, formats, containers).
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Experience with software development in consumer media platforms: mobile, media players, or camera and photo applications.
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Experience with continuous integration and test automation practices.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 11,484 open Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$146–220K/yr1,136 salary ranges
- California median$60–79/hr73 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,444 open Program Manager jobs in California and 11,484 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (9,831 postings).
- Education
- 4,660 of the 11,484 open Program Manager jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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