Apple
Software Data Engineer, Sensing & Connectivity
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years building and operating production software in Python; alternatively, 3 years of equivalent work experience may satisfy the education qualification.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or 3 years of equivalent work experience.
About the job
Build and operate tools, services, and data pipelines for scalable evaluation of generative AI systems, focusing on reliability, accuracy, and reproducibility.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain model-evaluation tools, services, data pipelines, and storage.
- Design validation frameworks for synthetic data and integrate the evaluation platform with enterprise services.
- Deploy, monitor, and operate production services; collaborate with cross-functional teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or 3 years of equivalent work experience.
- 3+ years building and operating production software in Python.
- Experience debugging production distributed systems or data pipelines, and designing input validation and configuration contracts.
- Hands-on use of agentic AI coding tools in day-to-day development; strong communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with model evaluation frameworks or ML infrastructure.
- Experience with generative image, video, or large language model APIs, or measuring synthetic-to-real data gaps.
Pay
USD 150,400–277,600 base salary
Tools
Python, CI/CD
AI focus
Build evaluation workflows, pipelines, and validation frameworks that assess generative AI system reliability and accuracy, including synthetic data.
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