Software Engineer (AI Developer Tools), AI & Data Platforms (AiDP)

Apple • Austin, TX

6h

About The Position

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, we believe new insights have a way of
becoming excellent products, services, and customer experiences very quickly.
Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could
accomplish. The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create
the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity
of those people and their ideas that inspires 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.
Developer Experience Platform team is looking for an extraordinary Python
backend engineer who has a robust understanding of Large Language Models
(LLMs)and Generative AI to join our team. You will help design, implement the
core backend services and pipelines that integrate with various other enterprise
services including LLMs and bring Gen AI services. You would support our mission
by applying groundbreaking research in this rapidly evolving and exciting space,
to our daily work. By contributing to our team, you’ll play an integral part in
developing our developer productivity tools, leaving a significant footprint on
the evolution of our enterprise AI platforms.

DESCRIPTION

The Developer Experience (DevX) Platform team builds the frameworks, services,
and tools that empower internal engineering teams across Apple to move faster
and ship with confidence. We’re now pioneering a Generative AI-powered Developer
Experience Platform — reimagining how Apple engineers build, test, and deploy
software. We’re looking for a talented Software Engineer to help build the next
generation of AI-powered developer tooling, tools that hundreds of Apple
engineers depend on every day. In this role, you’ll design and implement
intelligent agents that transform the software development lifecycle end-to-end
— from initial development through testing, deployment, and beyond. This is a
unique opportunity to sit at the intersection of deep engineering fundamentals
and cutting-edge AI agent development. You’ll tackle complex challenges across
distributed systems, developer tooling infrastructure, and AI agent
orchestration, all in service of making Apple’s engineers more productive than
ever

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of industry experience designing and building scalable, high-performance backend systems, with hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong programming proficiency in Java and Python, with hands-on experience in relational and NoSQL databases and scalable service-oriented architectures.
• Experience developing AI agents using frameworks such as LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, and similar libraries

Nice To Haves

• A genuine passion for developer experience and deep empathy for building tools that empower engineers to do their best work.
• Experience with TypeScript and frontend development, along with exposure to additional backend technologies such as Go or Kotlin.
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems principles, and microservice architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and deployment at scale.

What This Job Offers

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