AI Data & Knowledge Engineer

Apple Inc

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Austin, TX
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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 & Knowledge Engineer

The AI Data & Knowledge Engineer joins the US Sales Technology Team to build the data infrastructure supporting Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning initiatives. This role involves developing systems for large-scale continuous data transformation and delivery, specifically focusing on building and maintaining data pipelines for structured and unstructured data to power agentic AI applications. Key responsibilities include designing knowledge layers, RAG-ready pipelines, and semantic layers for chatbots. The engineer will utilize SQL, Python, Java, R, and frameworks like Hadoop and Spark within cloud environments such as Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Core tasks include managing vector search, knowledge graphs, and orchestration tools like Apache Airflow to ensure data quality, governance, and accurate text-to-SQL generation for sales processes.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop data pipelines and knowledge layers for agentic AI applications.
  • Build RAG-ready pipelines for document ingestion, parsing, metadata tagging, and vector search indexing.
  • Design scalable architectures for semantic search, hybrid search, and knowledge graphs.
  • Implement mechanisms for incremental synchronization of data to ensure real-time knowledge updates.
  • Operate distributed data systems including SQL/NoSQL databases, vector search, and orchestration tools.
  • Build pipelines to ingest and transform unstructured data like customer feedback and sales recordings.
  • Develop data quality monitoring and validation processes specifically for AIML datasets to address bias.
  • Implement data governance policies to ensure the ethical use of data in AI applications.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data solutions for large-scale analytics.
  • Experience designing and building knowledge layers for AI systems, including knowledge graphs, RAG pipelines, and vector databases.
  • Experience modeling enterprise knowledge and metadata within semantic layers to represent business entities and relationships.
  • Experience building data pipelines to ingest, transform, and continuously synchronize structured and unstructured enterprise data from multiple sources.
  • Proficiency in SQL and development experience with cloud database environments like Snowflake, Redshift, or Databricks.
  • Proficiency in programming languages like Python, Java, R, and open-source frameworks for distributed processing like Hadoop and Spark.
  • Hands-on experience using development tools in a modern cloud data stack, including Git, CI/CD tools, and orchestration tools like Apache Airflow.
  • Experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

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