Apple
Senior Cloud Engineer – Special Projects
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Designs and operates cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and inference platforms that support Apple’s AI-driven products and evaluation efforts.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain scalable cloud services, data pipelines, and model inference platforms.
- Create dashboards and evaluation frameworks to assess data quality, model performance, and system health.
- Collaborate across engineering teams and establish practices for reliability, privacy, and secure compute.
What they ask for
- Experience building distributed backend systems, web services, and data pipelines.
- Proficiency in one or more of Python, Go, or Swift; experience with cloud platforms and Kubernetes or similar orchestration.
- Experience with large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines, data storage systems, and data visualization or metric evaluation.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field; 5+ years of industry experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with multi-modal data systems or robotics/simulation pipelines.
- Familiarity with distributed computation, model lifecycle management, inference serving, or cloud observability.
Pay
USD $184,700 to $324,800 base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Swift, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, SQL/NoSQL, CI/CD
AI focus
Builds data pipelines and inference platforms for AI-driven products, including live inference, batch annotation, and large-scale model evaluation.
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