Craig Federighi is Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, overseeing the development of Apple's software platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS. Apple's leadership page says Federighi also leads the company's core AI efforts, including the development of foundation models, applied AI technologies, and the research behind Apple Intelligence and Siri. Federighi returned to Apple in 2009 to lead macOS engineering and took on iOS in 2012, after earlier work at NeXT and Apple and a decade at Ariba, where roles included chief technology officer. Apple's December 2025 announcement added a vice president of AI to Federighi's leadership team, covering Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation.12
At a glance
- Current role
- Senior Vice President, Software Engineering
- Company
- Apple
- Sector
- Company
- Fields
- Language models, Developer tools
- Education
- UC Berkeley
- Work listed
- 2
- Sources cited
- 5
- Profile reviewed
Career
Federighi worked at NeXT, then at Apple, and then spent a decade at Ariba, where roles included vice president of Internet Services and chief technology officer. Federighi returned to Apple in 2009 to lead Mac OS X engineering.41
In August 2012 Apple promoted Federighi from vice president to senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering and named Federighi to the executive management team. Two months later Apple announced that Federighi would lead both iOS and OS X, bringing the company's operating system teams together.45
Software and AI responsibilities
As senior vice president of Software Engineering, Federighi oversees iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS, with teams responsible for the user interface, applications, and frameworks, as well as privacy and security protections across Apple's platforms. Apple's leadership page lists Federighi as reporting to CEO John Ternus.1
Federighi also leads Apple's core AI efforts, covering foundation models, applied AI technologies, and the research behind Apple Intelligence and Siri. In December 2025 Apple announced that Amar Subramanya had joined as vice president of AI reporting to Federighi, leading Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation.12
Work and contributions
Apple Intelligence and Apple's foundation models Proprietary product
Apple's leadership page says Federighi leads Apple's core AI efforts, including the development of foundation models, applied AI technologies, and the research behind Apple Intelligence and the development of Siri.12
Apple software platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS) Proprietary product
Oversees development of Apple's software platforms; the teams are responsible for the user interface, applications, and frameworks.1
Timeline
- Returned to Apple to lead Mac OS X engineering.41
- Promoted to senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering and joined Apple's executive management team.4
- Took on leadership of both iOS and OS X engineering.5
- Apple announced that a new vice president of AI would report to Federighi, covering foundation models, ML research, and AI safety.2
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
- Several roles, including chief technology officer, Ariba1
Where they work
- Apple 27 people in the wiki
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References
5 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026
- Craig Federighi — Apple Leadership
- John Giannandrea to retire from Apple (Apple Newsroom press release)
- Apple Leadership — Executive Profiles
- Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio join Apple's executive team as senior vice presidents
- Apple announces changes to increase collaboration across hardware, software and services