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The proven ML Platforms, Solutions, and Services provide a comprehensive suite of capabilities to achieve efficiency, agility, and innovation at Apple scale-serving business-critical needs across Apple’s enterprise.\nWe are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Engineering Manager to lead and scale the Search / Information Retrieval team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in Java development, a solid understanding of distributed systems, hands-on experience in Search, Information Retrieval and relevancy tuning, and a keen interest in Generative AI (GenAI). You will play a critical role in building, scaling, and maintaining next-generation systems and applications that leverage the power of Search & GenAI technologies, ensuring robust, scalable, and efficient solutions.\nDescription\nEmbark on a transformative journey as an Engineering Manager within Apple's Applied Machine Learning Team. In this role, you will be responsible for the strategic direction, technical architecture, and leadership of a high-performing engineering team. You will assume a pivotal role in building and supporting the high-performance, scalable enterprise platforms that underpin our Search, Knowledge Graph, ML and inferencing systems. You shall be entrusted with the stewardship of ensuring unparalleled availability, optimal performance, and minimal latency for our high-throughput applications, thereby directly influencing and elevating the customer experience.\nYour responsibilities will encompass the development and optimal functioning of diverse workloads across ML/KG/Inference platforms, coupled with the exploration of, and building deep understanding of latest open source technologies and innovative solutions. You will bridge the gap between legacy search infrastructure (IR) and modern Generative AI capabilities to build next-generation, highly intelligent information ecosystems. 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