Apple
Applied AI Engineer, Agent Harness
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Build and evolve the agent runtime that enables Siri to use models, context, and tools reliably across Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute.
What you'll do
- Develop runtime components for planning, sessions, concurrency, cancellation, conversation state, and tool execution.
- Integrate on-device and server models, including low-latency streaming and interruptions.
- Protect safety, security, and privacy; validate changes with evals and latency metrics, and build tracing, replay, and testing tools.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong programming skills in a systems language such as Swift, C++, Rust, Objective-C, or Go; solid foundation in concurrency, inter-process communication, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems, through professional work or substantial personal projects.
- Daily use of agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Pi.
Nice to have
- Experience with Swift and Apple platform development, agent harnesses, model inference integration, evals, or engineering platforms and APIs.
- Familiarity with production privacy and security engineering and current agent harness research and practice.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 (base salary)
Tools
Swift, C++, Rust, Objective-C, Go, Claude Code, Codex, Pi
AI focus
Build the runtime harness for Siri: agent planning and tool use, context and conversation state, model integration, evals, and debugging across on-device and server models.
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