Apple
Sr. Software Engineer, Generative Experiences
$175K–$278K
Santa Clara, California +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- 3+ years of industry related experience; education qualification also allows 2 years of equivalent work experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field or 2 years of equivalent work experience; advanced degree in CS preferred.
About the job
Build software and orchestration layers that turn foundation models into privacy-conscious generative experiences across Siri, Spotlight, and Safari.
What you'll do
- Integrate ML APIs with internal data and services to support RAG and secure, privacy-preserving data handling.
- Partner with design, product, client, and platform teams to build intuitive generative interfaces and define system contracts.
- Develop evaluation, benchmarking, and telemetry tools to measure model-response quality and performance.
What they ask for
- Experience with prompt engineering and prompt tuning, including systematic evaluation and iteration.
- Proficient in at least two programming languages, such as C/C++, Go, Python, or Java.
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related field, or 2 years of equivalent work experience.
- Strong product sense, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Prior consumer-facing product experience.
- In-depth server-side development and deployment experience; advanced degree in CS.
Pay
$175,000 and $263,300 (base salary); $184,700 and $277,600 (base salary)
Tools
Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), C/C++, Go, Python, Java
AI focus
Build LLM-powered user experiences and RAG orchestration; apply prompt engineering and tuning, and develop tools to evaluate model-response quality and performance.
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