Software Engineer, GenAi - Platform and Solution - AiDP, IS&T

Apple • Seattle, WA

110d

About The Position

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Software Engineer to help build the foundation of Apple’s next-generation Generative AI platform. This role blends deep systems thinking, scalable backend development, and cutting-edge GenAI technologies such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Agentic frameworks. You will design and implement large-scale, secure, and highly available systems, while collaborating across teams to drive the future of intelligent experiences. If you’re excited about building production-grade GenAI infrastructure and solving hard distributed systems problems, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact at scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar degree or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of software engineering experience in Java or Python.
• Proven skills in designing scalable, highly available distributed systems which can handle high data volumes.
• Solid understanding of concurrency and multi-threading, multiple design patterns and debugging and analytical methodologies.
• Experience in building, maintaining or enhancing RESTful web services using cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.
• Extensive understanding of LLM’s, RAG, or Agentic workflow.

Nice To Haves

• Excellent written and oral communication skills on both technical and non-technical topics.
• Strong experience working with Gen AI based systems including RAG (Embedding or Chunking) and Agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGPT).
• Experience working with RAG Data ingestion pipelines, Vector DB and data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Spark, Flink).
• Deep understanding of REST or GraphQL or gRPC APIs, authentication (OAuth, API keys), and distributed systems.
• Experience in building, maintaining and enhancing RESTful web services using Spring boot for cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.
• Strong grasp of software design principles (SOLID, DRY) and testing frameworks (Pytest, Jest).
• Ability to debug complex cross-platform issues and optimize performance.
• Ability to debug and improve ML workflow tuning for high accuracy.
• Ability to articulate technical concepts effectively to diverse audiences.
• Self-directed, self-motivated and detail-oriented with ability to come up with good design proposals and thorough analysis of production issues.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale, secure, and highly available systems.
• Collaborate across teams to drive the future of intelligent experiences.
• Take responsibility for the product you ship and for the end-user.
• Communicate responsibilities and scope clearly.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees