AI Data & Infrastructure Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Salary: $184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted: 48 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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

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The AI Data & Infrastructure Engineer joins the Manufacturing Systems and Infrastructure team to design, build, and operate scalable AI data systems powering enterprise GenAI and Agentic AI capabilities. This role involves developing data ingestion, transformation, and publishing pipelines for structured, unstructured, and multimodal data. Key responsibilities include implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines, embedding workflows, and vector database integrations to enable manufacturing workflow automation. The engineer will utilize Python, SQL, Java, and Scala to build batch and streaming pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and Ray. Technical requirements include proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code within cloud-native environments. The position solves complex manufacturing operational problems by creating robust architectures for data orchestration, ensuring platform scalability, reliability, and performance for industrial data systems.

Skills

Python SQL Java Scala Spark PySpark Kafka Airflow Kubeflow MLflow Ray Pandas Kubernetes Docker AWS Azure GCP CI/CD RAG Vector Databases Iceberg Delta Lake

What you'll do

Design and build scalable AI data platforms, services, and APIs to support Agentic AI workflows.
Develop data ingestion, transformation, and publishing pipelines for structured, unstructured, and multimodal data.
Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, embedding workflows, and vector database integrations.
Build and integrate tools to make complex AI systems observable, understandable, and debuggable.
Optimize platform scalability, reliability, performance, security, and cost across cloud-native environments.
Create robust architectures for systems that handle data orchestration for enterprise AI features.
Prototype and iterate on hands-on products to quickly validate technical ideas.

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 (PySpark), Kafka, Airflow, and Ray with modern data lake architectures.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
Knowledge of RAG architectures, embedding generation, vector databases, and AI data preparation for LLMs and agentic AI.
Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, Agentic Systems, API design, or industrial data platforms (preferred).