Senior Software Engineer - Data

Apple • Sunnyvale, CA

3h

About The Position

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values
that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple
Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas
stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make
something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better.
It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation
that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the
best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add
something. We are actively seeking an exceptional and highly motivated Engineer
to join our team for data processing infrastructure and pipeline development.
This role will be instrumental in supporting data-driven R&D across a diverse
range of core products and technologies. The ideal candidate possesses a
demonstrated history of success in designing and developing robust, scalable,
and efficient processing pipelines for multimodal data, including, image, video,
text, audio, sensor data, metadata, etc.

DESCRIPTION

In this role, you will be responsible for data processing and curation of the
multimodal data. You design and implement systematic processes, automated
pipelines, and collaborate with data collection and ML & product engineers to
create high quality data, support data-driven product and AIML development, and
ensure data compliance with security and privacy regulations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and/or an equivalent engineering field, and 6+ years of industry experience architecting and developing scalable and reliable software, pipeline and platforms for data processing, validation, analytics and curation on the multimodal data (including, image, video, text, audio, sensor data, etc. )
• Experience with Python and SQL
• Experience with data pipeline, modeling, database and query tools, like Dagster, PostgreSQL, MangoDB, Trino or equivalent.
• Experience with building and scaling systems on premise and in the cloud

Nice To Haves

• Passion for data quality and curation, code elegance, clear documentation, operational excellence, attention to details and delivering outstanding user experiences
• Excellent communication skills. Able to confidently express the benefits and constraints of technology solutions to cross-functional technical and non-technical teams.
• Comfortable with rotating on-call for mission-critical operations and applications
• Experience with vision data processing tools like FFmpeg, GStreamer, OpenCV, or equivalent.
• Experience in building Cloud Data Warehouses in Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery or analogous architectures.
• Experience with the practical application of data warehousing concepts, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Experience with machine learning algorithms for data curation and annotation.
• Experience with data collection and/or annotation operations

Responsibilities

• data processing
• curation of the multimodal data
• design and implement systematic processes
• design and implement automated pipelines
• collaborate with data collection and ML & product engineers to create high quality data
• support data-driven product and AIML development
• ensure data compliance with security and privacy regulations

What This Job Offers

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