Apple
Software Development Engineer
$150K–$278K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of software engineering experience; preferred: 7+ years overall, including 3+ years in backend web service development.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, or equivalent with relevant proven experience with biomedical, health, or sensitive data.
About the job
Build and maintain backend systems and web-based monitoring and visualization tools that support Apple health user studies and improve health-related product development.
What you'll do
- Build web-based monitoring, visualization, and data platform solutions that provide real-time insight into study health and data quality.
- Integrate LLM-based functionality into study tools and use LLMs across the software development lifecycle.
- Partner with researchers, engineers, and study operations teams to identify needs, prioritize improvements, and support high-quality data collection.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, or equivalent with relevant proven experience with biomedical, health, or sensitive data.
- 3+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong software development skills, with proficiency in Python.
- Experience integrating LLM-based functionality into production web tools and leveraging LLMs in a closed-loop development workflow.
Nice to have
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in backend web service development.
- Experience with data monitoring and visualization systems, distributed data processing, and leading design reviews or mentoring engineers.
Pay
$150,400 to $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
Python, OpenAI, Anthropic APIs, Flask, FastAPI, PySpark, SparkSQL, Kubernetes
AI focus
Integrate LLM-based agentic functionality using OpenAI/Anthropic APIs into study tools, and use LLMs in a closed-loop development workflow from planning and architecture through implementation, PR generation, and deployment.
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