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About the job

Imagine what you could do here. The people here at Apple don't just create products — they create the kind of wonder that has revolutionized entire industries. It is the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation running through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it!

Our Sales organization generates the revenue needed to fuel our ongoing development of products and services, enriching the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. In many ways, our sales team is the face of Apple to our largest enterprise customers.

We are seeking a skilled Principal Technical Lead to join our AI and Emerging Technology Partnerships team. You will act as the primary technical interface between Apple and the developers, architects, and product leaders at key strategic partners — world-leading AI and enterprise technology developers building on our platform. Working across Business Development, Product Marketing, Developer Relations, and Software and Hardware Engineering, you will evangelize Apple's platform technologies, including our latest AI/ML frameworks, to drive adoption, optimization, and deep integration. In this seat, you'll sit at the center of how the world's leading AI platforms and ISVs adopt Apple's technology — your technical judgment and partner relationships will directly shape the enterprise AI solutions the world runs on. This role suits a collaborative, technically fluent professional who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys solving hard integration problems alongside partner engineering teams.