Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI): Apple

Apple is seeking a Staff level Software Engineer to help advance its Manufacturing Systems and Operations by working with the latest Large Language Models (LLMs) from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Mistral, as well as custom fine-tuned models.

This role is for a senior engineer who can move fast, prototype ideas, and experiment with new approaches to solve existing problems. You will work across multiple organizations to develop solutions that go from the whiteboard to production and have a significant impact at scale. The applications you build will be used daily by Apple's hardware design, engineering, and supply chain teams.

Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:

10+ years in a senior role working across the entire tech stack.

10+ years building robust HTTP APIs and backend services.

Expert-level grasp of at least one modern programming language: Go (preferred), Python, Java, etc.

Experience building solutions that leverage APIs from the latest LLMs.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with model pipeline and registry tools, detecting and preventing model drift, and automating model monitoring.

Experience building robust evaluations for prompt optimization and tuning ML workflows.

Experience with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and modern model in-context learning techniques.

Experience with SQL and database systems like PostgreSQL.

Experience with building ETL pipelines in a data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake).

Manufacturing experience or exposure is a plus, but not required.