AI Data Platform Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$150,400–$277,600 / yr
Posted
42 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $189k
This role $214k
$131k most similar roles pay here $293k

This role pays more than 66% of similar roles. Most pay $146,275–$231,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $189k 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

Apple Inc currently has 1984 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · AI Data Platform Engineer

As an AI Data Platform Engineer within the Manufacturing Systems and Infrastructure team, you will design, build, and operate scalable data platforms that enable GenAI, Agentic AI, and Embodied AI solutions across the enterprise. You will develop reusable platform services, data pipelines, and quality frameworks to transform fragmented multimodal data into trusted, AI-ready datasets. Your daily work involves building ingestion and transformation pipelines, managing dataset versioning, and implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows with vector database integrations. To succeed, you must be proficient in Python, SQL, Spark, Kafka, and Airflow, while utilizing tools like Kubeflow or MLflow. You will also leverage Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud environments to manage the end-to-end AI data lifecycle, ensuring high performance and security for complex manufacturing and industrial data systems.

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain scalable AI data platforms, services, and APIs to support model development and production.
  • Develop ingestion, transformation, and publishing pipelines for structured, unstructured, and multimodal data.
  • Build AI-ready datasets through ground truth creation, curation, annotation workflows, and versioning.
  • Create data quality frameworks, validation pipelines, and observability metrics to ensure trusted datasets.
  • Implement RAG pipelines, embedding workflows, and vector database integrations for enterprise applications.
  • Manage the end-to-end AI data lifecycle including metadata management, lineage, and secure publishing.
  • Optimize platform scalability, performance, security, and cost across cloud-native environments.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies to improve capabilities for GenAI, Agentic AI, and Embodied AI solutions.

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.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL, with preferred proficiency in Java or Scala.
  • Experience using Airflow, Kubeflow, or MLflow to build and orchestrate scalable AI data pipelines.
  • Experience building batch and streaming pipelines using Spark (PySpark), Kafka, Ray, and modern lakehouse architectures like Iceberg or Delta Lake.
  • Hands-on experience with AI data engineering including ground truth creation, curation, annotation workflows, versioning, and metadata management.
  • Knowledge of RAG architectures, embedding generation, vector databases, and AI data preparation for LLMs and agentic AI.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.

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