AI Data & Infrastructure Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted
23 days ago
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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

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 multimodal data while implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines, embedding workflows, and vector database integrations. The engineer will build robust architectures for data orchestration, infrastructure provisioning, and manufacturing workflow automation. Key technologies include Python, SQL, Java, Scala, Spark, Kafka, Ray, Airflow, Kubeflow, and MLflow. Candidates must navigate cloud-native environments using Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code. The work focuses on solving complex manufacturing operations problems by creating observable, debuggable systems that optimize platform scalability, reliability, and performance for industrial data and agentic systems.

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.
  • Build and integrate tools to enable manufacturing workflow automation through Agents and Agent skills.

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 proficiency in Pandas and 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).

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