Apple
Sr. Staff / Distinguished Engineer
$262K–$394K
Cupertino, California +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- Cupertino, California
Santa Clara, California - Experience
- 12+ years building and operating distributed systems at large scale.
- Education
- B.S. in Computer Science; M.S./PhD Preferred.
About the job
Leads the technical strategy and execution of Apple’s web-scale platform for acquiring, storing, and delivering data that supports search, maps, Siri, and foundation models.
What you'll do
- Set crawl strategy and use machine learning to prioritize, score, and improve the value of acquired data.
- Design scalable storage and compute architecture for exabyte-scale data pipelines and downstream use.
- Align infrastructure and ML strategy across engineering, search, AI research, product teams, and senior leadership.
What they ask for
- 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, including petabyte- or exabyte-class storage, compute, or data pipelines.
- Production experience applying machine learning to data quality, ranking, relevance, or prioritization.
- Track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams as a senior lead.
- Experience partnering with ML/AI research teams to translate model needs into infrastructure and data requirements.
Nice to have
- Experience with web crawling, search indexing, or large-scale content pipelines.
- Familiarity with training data pipelines for large language or foundation models; mentoring senior engineers and influencing organization-level architecture.
Pay
$262,500 and $394,000 USD base salary
Tools
distributed systems, machine learning, web crawling, search indexing, storage, compute
AI focus
Applies ML to decide what web data to acquire, prioritize, score for quality and relevance, and how those decisions evolve; supports search ranking and AI model training, including foundation models.
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