Apple
Senior Backend Engineer - Generative AI Platform and Systems - Special Projects
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
- Education
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate backend and infrastructure platforms and Python tooling that support model evaluation, testing, validation, and ML-enabled systems.
What you'll do
- Design, scale, and operate cloud-native platforms, owning infrastructure components and contributing to architectural decisions.
- Build Python tooling and large systems for user-facing applications to accelerate model evaluation, testing, and validation.
- Integrate models into ML-enabled systems and collaborate across teams to ensure systems are reliable, secure, and performant.
What they ask for
- Strong Python development experience and experience with relational database systems.
- Strong experience with infrastructure, cloud-native platform engineering, and Kubernetes deployment.
- Experience with large-scale web development and bringing AI systems from advanced research to production.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
Nice to have
- Experience with React.js and web UI frameworks, ML systems and model evaluation.
- Experience with robotics, embodied AI, or LLMs.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (base salary range; USD)
Tools
Python, Kubernetes, React.js
AI focus
Build tooling for model evaluation and integrate models into systems that employ ML; work spans generative AI, robotics, and data analysis.
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