AI Data & Infrastructure Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Salary
$184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $255k
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This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $134,987–$223,737 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $179k for comparable roles.

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About Apple Inc

Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · AI Data & Infrastructure Engineer

As an AI Data & Infrastructure Engineer within the Manufacturing Systems and Infrastructure team, you will design, build, and operate scalable AI data systems that power enterprise GenAI and Agentic AI capabilities. You will develop data ingestion, transformation, and publishing pipelines for multimodal data while building robust architectures for data orchestration and Retrieval-Augmented Generation workflows. Your daily work involves creating services and APIs to enable manufacturing workflow automation through agents. To succeed, you must utilize Python, SQL, Spark, Kafka, Ray, and Airflow, alongside tools like Kubeflow or MLflow. You will also manage infrastructure using Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms while working with vector databases and lakehouse architectures like Iceberg or Delta Lake. This role solves complex technical challenges in manufacturing operations by providing production-ready data solutions for automated systems and industrial data platforms.

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain scalable AI data platforms, services, and APIs to support Agentic AI workflows.
  • Build data ingestion, transformation, and publishing pipelines for structured, unstructured, and multimodal data.
  • Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, embedding workflows, and vector database integrations.
  • Develop tools to make complex AI systems observable, understandable, and debuggable.
  • Optimize platform scalability, reliability, performance, security, and cost across cloud-native environments.
  • Build and integrate infrastructure for manufacturing workflow automation through Agentic AI capabilities.
  • Translate complex user workflows into practical technical solutions and production-ready data systems.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience designing and building scalable data platforms and distributed systems.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and SQL, with proficiency in Java or Scala (preferred).
  • Experience with Airflow, Kubeflow, or MLflow to build and orchestrate scalable AI data pipelines.
  • Experience building batch and streaming data pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Ray, Pandas, and modern lakehouse architectures.
  • Knowledge of RAG architectures, embedding generation, vector databases, and AI data preparation for LLMs and agentic AI (preferred).
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Experience with API design, manufacturing/industrial data platforms, and leading technical initiatives (preferred).

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