
Engineering Project Manager- Customer Systems - Support Engineering Solutions
Required skills
- Business
- technical delivery
- software development lifecycle
- project management methodologies
- Agile
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- AI tooling
- LLMs
Nice to have
- enterprise business applications
- customer support
- service operations
- PMP
- CSM
- AppleCare
Role summary
Apple's Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization is seeking an Engineering Project Manager for the IS&T Customer Systems team. This role will lead the design, build, and maintenance of critical business applications powering AppleCare's global support operations. The ideal candidate will partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to scope projects, manage timelines, and ensure high-quality delivery from concept to launch. This role requires strong communication skills to translate business needs into engineering plans, track progress, and resolve roadblocks, with an emphasis on leveraging modern AI tooling for efficiency and visibility.
Description
The Engineering Project Manager will lead cross-functional planning and execution for business applications supporting AppleCare Business Org. This role partners with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to scope projects, manage timelines, and ensure high-quality delivery. The ideal candidate is a clear communicator who can translate business needs into actionable engineering plans, track progress across concurrent initiatives, and proactively resolve roadblocks — while leveraging modern AI tooling to increase efficiency and visibility across the team.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent work experience. 5+ years of experience in engineering project management, program management, or related technical delivery roles. Demonstrated experience managing software development projects from initiation through delivery. Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and project management methodologies (Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid).
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting enterprise business applications within a customer support or service operations environment. PMP, CSM, or other relevant project/program management certification. Familiarity with AppleCare business processes or similar customer service organizations. Experience with project management and collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet). AI tooling fluency, including status reporting automation, risk prediction, meeting summarization, and spec drafting with LLMs. Experience coordinating delivery for AI/ML-enabled features, including familiarity with data readiness, model evaluation cycles, and phased rollout practices, is a plus.
Sample Apple interview questions
- 1
Architect a big data ingestion system focusing entirely on reliability and backpressure management during unpredictable traffic events.
system designmedium - 2
Break down the system design for a global digital learning environment including video hosting and user progress tracking.
system designmedium - 3
How do you architect a risk system that dynamically shifts its strictness based on the merchants tolerance for fraud?
system designmedium - 4
Break down the data pipeline required to serve live ad performance statistics to a client dashboard.
system designmedium - 5
Let us build the backend for a smart parking garage. How do you manage inventory and process payments in real time?
system designmedium
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