Apple
Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)
$195K–$294K
Cupertino, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 7, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years for each of the two stated experience requirements.
About the job
Build and scale AI-powered software for Apple’s manufacturing systems and operations, taking solutions from prototype through production in collaboration with engineering, design, quality, supply chain, and supplier teams.
What you'll do
- Prototype and experiment with approaches to improve existing manufacturing and operations problems.
- Develop solutions, either standalone or integrated with existing systems, and bring them into production and scale.
- Collaborate across organizations and with users to design and architect solutions for hardware manufacturing.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in a senior role working across the entire tech stack with a skilled team.
- 10+ years building robust HTTP APIs and backend services.
- Expert-level grasp of at least one modern programming language; Go is preferred, with Python and Java also listed.
- Experience building solutions that leverage APIs from the latest LLMs.
Nice to have
- Experience with model pipelines and registries, model drift prevention, monitoring, and accuracy; prompt evaluations and tuning ML workflows; or RAG and modern in-context learning techniques.
- Experience with SQL and PostgreSQL, ETL pipelines in Snowflake, or manufacturing.
Pay
$194,600 to $293,900 USD base salary
Tools
Go, Python, Java, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Llama
AI focus
Apply LLM APIs and custom fine-tuned models to manufacturing and operations; preferred work includes model monitoring and evaluation, prompt optimization, ML workflow tuning, and RAG.
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