Senior Software Engineering Manager – Manufacturing Intelligence, Agentic Systems & Physical AI

About the role

Imagine what you could do here. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there is no telling what you could accomplish. Apple’s Manufacturing and Product Operations organization is looking for a hands-on, technically accomplished Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple software engineering teams building the next generation of intelligent manufacturing systems.

What you'll do

• Lead multiple software engineering teams responsible for manufacturing platforms, enterprise integrations, agentic workflows, AI applications and factory-edge systems
• Establish a unified technical vision, platform strategy and multi-year engineering roadmap across the organization
• Define clear charters, ownership boundaries, interfaces and operating mechanisms across teams while ensuring that systems are designed as a cohesive platform rather than…
• Develop engineering managers, technical leads and senior individual contributors, creating a strong leadership bench capable of scaling the organization
• Lead the architecture and development of software platforms supporting manufacturing planning, execution, quality, automation and operational decision-making

What you need

• 18–30 yrs of experience
• Data structures
• Microservices
• Machine learning
• Operational risk
• Test automation
• ERP
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• Java
• Python
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Angular