Senior Software Engineer - AI Data Platform

Apple

10h

About The Position

Join the team that serves as Apple’s nerve center, our Information Systems and Technology group. There are countless ways you’ll contribute here, whether you’re coordinating technology needs for product launches, designing music solutions for retail locations, or ensuring the strength of in-store Wi-Fi connections. From Apple Pay to the Apple website to our data centers around the globe, you’ll help design and manage the massive systems that countless employees and customers rely on every day. You’ll also build custom tools for employees, empowering them to solve complex problems on their own. Join our team, and together we’ll explore all the ways to improve how Apple operates, freeing our employees to do what they do best: craft magical experiences for our customers. The people here at Apple don’t just build products - we craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that supports the innovation that runs 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 team builds cutting edge agentic assistant platform. This platform is built on top of a phenomenal GenAI platform and leverage multiple frameworks. This position is an extraordinary opportunity for a competent, expert, and results-oriented Framework Software Engineer to define and build some of the best-in-class data platforms and products. As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building Apple’s AI Data and ML platforms. You will either work on building custom solutions ground up or take open source products and customize the same for Apple’s need. We're looking for an individual who loves to take challenges, tackles problems with imaginative solutions, works well in collaborative teams, and can produce high-quality software under tight deadlines and constraints. This role involves building innovative tools and frameworks that can extend across different platforms within AiDP.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of overall experience in software/platform development.
• Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python (and ideally in one or more additional languages like Typescript, Java, Golang etc).
• Strong communication skills to conduct discovery with customers and to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Knowledge of LLM serving and inference frameworks.
• 1+ years of experience shipping production-grade AI-driven solutions to external or internal customers.
• Hands-on experience with frameworks like Langchain/LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen.
• Experience in applied AI, with a focus on building systems around pretrained models (e.g., prompt engineering, fine-tuning, Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agent orchestration).
• Data Structures & Algorithms: Strong foundation and application experience.
• Distributed Systems: Solid understanding and hands-on experience managing at least one distributed system (e.g. Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Flink etc.).
• Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
• Creative Thinking: A track record of proposing and implementing innovative solutions to technical challenges.

Nice To Haves

• Experience architecting AI systems on cloud platforms.
• Ideally proficient in one or more additional languages like Typescript, Java, Golang etc.

Responsibilities

• Building Apple’s AI Data and ML platforms.
• Building custom solutions ground up or taking open source products and customizing them for Apple’s needs.
• Building innovative tools and frameworks that can extend across different platforms within AiDP.
• Architecting AI systems on cloud platforms.
• Shipping production-grade AI-driven solutions to external or internal customers.
• Implementing secure agentic workflows incorporating MCP, tool-calling, and OAuth-based authentication.
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior