Software Engineering Manager - Siri Evaluation, Test Development Tooling
Siri's quality signal drives every model and product decision before a release ships, and that signal is only as good as the tests and scenarios behind it. The Test Development Tooling team, part of the Siri's Agentic Evaluation Engineering organization, is reimagining how those scenarios are created and maintained. We build tools and AI-powered automation that free our engineers to focus on the quality and strategy of evaluation rather than the manual work of authoring tests. We're looking for an inspiring, hands-on engineering leader to run this team and set its technical direction.
The ideal candidate is technically strong player-coach that will provide technical direction for the team. Responsibilities include leading a team of high-performing engineers, setting technical direction, driving development from requirements to delivery, collaborating with partner teams across Apple, and mentoring engineers to reach their best potential.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience developing production software (e.g., Swift, Python, Java, or Go).
- 3+ years of engineering management experience.
- Strong technical leadership and the ability to set architectural direction and inspire a team.
- Experience with test infrastructure, CI/CD, or evaluation/ML platforms.
- Proactive and self-motivated, with demonstrated creative and critical-thinking abilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building or leading teams that apply LLMs / AI agents to real engineering workflows (e.g., automated test generation, code generation, or agentic pipelines with human-in-the-loop review).
- Depth in one or more of: distributed systems and backend services (REST/gRPC), cloud infrastructure (Docker/Kubernetes), data platforms, or large-scale test and release infrastructure.
- Familiarity with Apple's testing frameworks (XCTest and related) and with ML/LLM evaluation concepts.
- Demonstrated cross-functional leadership and the ability to drive coverage and quality decisions with senior stakeholders.
- Experience hiring and growing a team, including senior engineers.
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and reshaping team scope as the domain matures.