Apple
Sr Data Engineer, AIML
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 29, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 10+ years in data engineering, backend engineering, or distributed systems; preferred qualifications also state 7+ years in data engineering or large-scale distributed systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
About the job
Build and operate scalable data infrastructure and pipelines that support analytics, machine learning, and Apple Foundation Model development.
What you'll do
- Design, optimize, and maintain large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines and cloud data architectures.
- Develop BigQuery data models and ETL/ELT workflows, integrating data while ensuring quality, governance, and security.
- Collaborate with data and product teams; monitor and troubleshoot systems for performance, cost, and reliability.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in data engineering, backend engineering, or distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience building large-scale batch and streaming pipelines using Python and distributed systems.
- Expertise in GCP data services, including BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and Composer, plus ETL/ELT and event-driven architectures.
- Proficiency in Python, version control, CI/CD, testing, and code reviews; bachelor’s or master’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with data platforms or data mesh, data governance, lineage, or metadata management.
- Experience supporting ML/MLOps workflows or familiarity with Generative AI/LLM systems.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
Google Cloud Dataflow, Apache Beam, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Dataproc, Composer, Python
AI focus
Build data infrastructure supporting the Apple Foundation Model lifecycle and ML use cases; preferred experience includes ML pipelines, MLOps, Generative AI/LLM data workflows, agentic pipelines, and embedding/vector-based retrieval.
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