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Apple

The people here at Apple don&rsquo;t just create products - they create the kind of wonder that&rsquo;s revolutionized entire industries. It&rsquo;s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. 
 
Apple is seeking an experienced, detail-minded data engineering team lead to join our Finance Process, Analytics, Reporting &amp; Technology (PART) Data Operations team. You will lead a team of data engineers delivering trustworthy, high-quality data to our Retail Finance analysts. If you are someone who looks forward to solving complex business problems, developing engineering talent, and building reliable data foundations, please reach out to us. 
 
Description 
 
You will lead a team of data engineers to architect, develop, and test large scale and efficient solutions that provide Apple leadership with the accurate data required to rapidly understand and adapt to changing business conditions. 
 
We are a growing team with plenty of interesting technical and business challenges to solve. We seek a self-starter who is willing to learn fast, adapt well to changing requirements, develop others, and work with cross functional teams.&quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers, setting technical standards and fostering a culture of engineering excellence 
 
Design and implement scalable, efficient, and high-quality methods of consuming data from a diverse set of sources with variable quality and predictability 
 
Establish and maintain data quality frameworks, including automated validation, monitoring, and alerting 
 
Create data products, enabling self-service and predictability by any consumer 
 
Build libraries and frameworks that drive leverage and productivity for the entire team 
 
Optimize and maintain solutions, driving improvements in efficiency, data quality, and operational excellence 
 
Manage team workload and priorities, balancing competing demands while maintaining quality 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
2+ years leading or mentoring other engineers 
 
Expertise in languages like Python and technologies like Airflow, Spark, Trino, Kafka, Docker, Iceberg, Databricks 
 
Hands-on experience with database design and architecture in cloud data warehouses and lakehouse environments 
 
Ability to analyze complex datasets and design solutions with optimum quality and efficiency 
 
Appreciation for data quality and validation in every pipeline 
 
Familiarity with SDLC best practices, version control, CI/CD 
 
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate between technical and business contexts 
 
Experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure for data infrastructure and storage 
 
Experience with streaming interfaces and pipelines 
 
Finance and accounting process experience 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
6+ years software engineering, including strong SQL and data focus 
 
BS in Engineering / Computer Science 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; Benefits 
 
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $146,300 and $244,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. 
 
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits. 
 
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Data Engineer, PART DataOps

Join Apple Maps, where our mission is to build the best map in the world. As a Data Science Software Engineer in the Maps Evaluation organization, you will be instrumental in harnessing the power of user data to strategically inform and influence critical decisions across the Maps organization. We work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment where you&rsquo;ll have significant autonomy to define and lead impactful projects, drive substantial change, and contribute your unique perspective to a team committed to creating something truly wonderful. 
 
Description 
 
We seek an experienced software engineer to embed in the data science team to support data science analysis. A major component is supporting prototype metrics, models, and data pipelines that are core to data science work. Additionally, this position will work to build, support, and evolve the frameworks and libraries that help data scientists create data analysis products. Part of the position is hands-on data engineering work, and another part is serving as an internal engineering consultant for data science projects in areas like computation, data access, data storage considerations, and best practices in software engineering. Additionally, you will be working across teams with other engineers embedded in data science teams, and the broader engineering teams in Maps, to contribute to common tools, platforms, and libraries.&quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;Support the development of data science libraries and frameworks, guiding data scientist contributions and looking for opportunities for improvements 
 
Monitor, maintain, and improve the reliability and efficiency of data pipelines written by the team 
 
Create new data pipelines to make additional sources of data available for geospatial analyses 
 
Guide architecture and data processing decisions made by the data science team for building data products 
 
Collaborate with engineers across Maps to improve the tooling and platforms for data science and analysis 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Data orchestration systems like Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect 
 
CI/CD tools like Github Actions or Travis CI 
 
Maintaining libraries to support analytical, quantitive, and statistical analyses 
 
Working with, or even embedded in, data science teams and helping to build prototypes, data pipelines, and models 
 
Helping mixed technical teams follow software engineering best practices 
 
Processing geospatial or spatiotemporal data 
 
Building front-end applications, particularly dashboards or geospatial visualization 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
Excellent programming skills, preferably in Python 
 
2+ Years of experience working with distributed data technologies and large-scale data processing (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Ray, MPI) 
 
Experience with cloud-based infrastructure 
 
Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially with non-software engineering partners 
 
Bachelor or advanced degrees in Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, Operations Research, Engineering or similar quantitative domain 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; Benefits 
 
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $147,400 and $272,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. 
 
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits. 
 
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Software Development Engineer-Eval Data Science

Our team is dedicated to solving the high-quality training data problem at the scale required to train advanced Foundation Models. We believe that the advanced model performance (including reasoning, coding, and agentic planning) fundamentally depends on a data-centric approach to Machine Learning. Our objective is to engineer a large-scale system that acquires, processes, and curates the data required to advance the state of the art in Artificial Intelligence. 
 
We are seeking a Senior Research Engineer who possesses a deep understanding of distributed systems and a strong intuition for Machine Learning. You will join a culture that values engineering craftsmanship, privacy, and rigorous scientific inquiry, utilizing advanced cloud technologies to build the data systems that powers our most capable models. 
 
Description 
 
This position operates at the convergence of Software Engineering and Machine Learning Research. Unlike traditional backend roles, this position requires you to design systems where the outcome is the statistical distribution and quality of data itself. You will work alongside Research Scientists to transform theoretical observations into concrete, scalable engineering solutions. Your core focus will be the architecture of our Data Acquisition, Processing, and Repository Management systems for Large Model training. You will lead technical efforts to enable active, quality-driven data curation, including filtering, deduping, synthetic data generation and data mixing, ensuring our models are trained on the highest-quality information available.&quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;Architect Scalable Ingestion Systems: Design and implement high-throughput distributed systems to ingest petabytes of text and multimodal data from diverse sources, including web crawls and third-party partnerships. 
 
Repository Optimization: Manage the lifecycle of large-scale datasets across data storage and high-performance file systems. Optimize data formats for efficient random access and sequential scanning during model training. 
 
Data Governance &amp; Privacy: Engineer robust data governance and privacy solutions for the training data, in collaboration with compliance and legal teams, to ensure adherence to stringent regulatory standards. 
 
High-Performance Processing Pipelines: Build and maintain distributed data processing workflows using advanced frameworks on cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, AWS). 
 
Algorithmic Data Curation: Implement sophisticated data filtering and selection logic to remove low-quality content. Develop semantic deduplication at scale to prevent model memorization and improve training efficiency. 
 
Decontamination Removal: Design automated systems to detect and remove benchmark leakage, ensuring that evaluation datasets remain strictly isolated from training corpora. 
 
Infrastructure for Scaling Laws: Collaborate with researchers to enable data ablations and scaling experiments. Build tools to support systematic data mixture optimization and empirically data studies. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Research Collaboration: Experience working within or closely with ML research organizations (e.g., as a Research Engineer), with an ability to translate research results into engineering implementations. 
 
Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with lifecycle of modern LLM training, end-to-end workflows, and underlying system architecture. 
 
Complex Data Types: Experience in processing complex data modalities beyond plain text, such as source code repositories, images, videos, and audios. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
Education: Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics. 
 
Technical Expertise: 4+ years of software engineering experience with a specific focus on Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, or AI/ML Engineering. 
 
Language Proficiency: Expert fluency in Python, and strong competence in system languages such as C++. 
 
Cloud Architecture: Extensive experience architecting solutions on major public cloud platforms (e.g. GCP) to build scalable data systems (e.g. with Apache Beam, GCS) 
 
Performance Engineering: Deep experience profiling and optimizing high-throughput data systems. Demonstrated ability to debug distributed bottlenecks (e.g., stragglers, I/O saturation), optimize data formats and provide efficient data storage solutions. 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; Benefits 
 
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $181,100 and $318,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. 
 
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits. 
 
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Senior Research Engineer, Training Data Infrastructure in Foundation Models

Join the engineering team creating next-generation touch interfaces for iPad, Pencil, iPhone, Watch and more. We are an eclectic group with backgrounds in signal processing, machine learning, computer science, estimation algorithms, human factors, and more, dedicated to inventing new ways of interacting with Apple products and shipping amazing products every year. 
 
We are looking for a signal processing and machine learning engineer with C/C++ implementation skill. Your good communication skills, and ability to drive discussions with cross-functional teams would come in very handy. Have you gained any experience with user interface design or graphics programming skills as well? That&rsquo;s great! It will further help broaden your role and effectiveness in this position. 
 
To summarize, you will be working on innovative projects and will be responsible for productizing algorithmic solutions, and you will be part of the team shipping products to millions of users every year. 
 
Description 
 
This is a key position at a focal point for HW/SW/UI integration. Starting from early in the product lifecycle, this engineer will analyze HW issues for user impact and potential mitigations, modify and tune current algorithms for new form factors, design and implement new user facing features, as well as provide critical support during production phase. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
MS in CS/CE/EECS/Math; PhD is preferred. 
 
Investigating new technologies, prototyping concepts, evaluating user impact, and delivering products. 
 
Data collection and analysis. 
 
Handle large data processing on cloud. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience. 
 
Mathematical, scripting and modeling languages such as Python/Matlab. 
 
Solid understanding of topics like signal processing, linear algebra, statistics, adaptive filters etc. 
 
Machine learning models and frameworks 
 
Strong C/C++ coding skill 
 
User studies and data analysis 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; Benefits 
 
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $181,100 and $318,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. 
 
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits. 
 
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Sensing ML Algorithm Engineer - HID

Play a role in bringing Apple technology to the world. We are looking for a hardworking, dedicated, and results-oriented Animation Engineer. You would join a team building simulation art assets. Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other&rsquo;s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It&rsquo;s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you&rsquo;ll do more than join something - you&rsquo;ll add something. 
 
Description 
 
As a Senior Simulation Machine Learning Engineer, you will join an innovation-driven team advancing Apple&rsquo;s simulation and synthetic data technology to support a wide range of AI/ML initiatives. You will design, prototype, and productionize systems that generate high-quality 3D scenarios and multi-modal synthetic datasets used throughout Apple&rsquo;s ML ecosystem. 
 
We&rsquo;re looking for an engineer with deep experience, strong ML intuition, and the ability to turn ambitions into robust tools. You should be comfortable exploring new ideas, iterating quickly, and driving solutions from prototype to polished implementation. Collaboration is essential - you will partner closely with engineers, animators, technical artists, and ML researchers across the organization. You will play a key role in shaping Apple&rsquo;s next generation of AI/ML capabilities by defining how simulation data is generated, validated, and delivered at scale.&quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;Design and implement systems for generating, varying, and validating 3D simulation scenarios, leveraging generative models, procedural techniques, and diverse data sources to create environments, human animation and behavior, rendering and lighting. 
 
Develop prototypes and production systems that expand our capabilities and scale across teams 
 
Partner with engineers, ML researchers, and content creators to deliver efficient, reliable pipelines. 
 
Develop tools and APIs that enable internal users to easily author, manage, and execute simulations. 
 
Debug and resolve issues across scenario generation, simulation, and data quality. 
 
Identify architectural improvements and drive long-term strategy for scenario generation and simulation-based data pipelines. 
 
Stay current with advances in world models, generative video/3D models, neural rendering, procedural content generation, and simulation technologies. Introduce promising methods into production workflows. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Familiarity with USD format and tools 
 
Experience with neural rendering, 3D generative models, learned simulation techniques. 
 
Experience guiding technical direction, influencing architecture in a software engineering team 
 
Understanding of real-time and offline rendering pipelines. 
 
Experience with animation 
 
Experience with complex industrial or commercial simulation systems or large-scale data generation workflows. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
5+ years of professional experience in ML, simulation, graphics, or related fields. 
 
Strong proficiency in Python and modern machine learning techniques. 
 
Working knowledge of C++ and robust software engineering fundamentals. 
 
Experience with LLMs, VLMs, diffusion models, world models, or similar generative/modeling frameworks. 
 
Experience with 3D data, scene representations, and rendering fundamentals. 
 
Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills are key. 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; Benefits 
 
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $181,100 and $318,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. 
 
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits. 
 
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Senior Simulation Machine Learning Engineer - Special Projects

Are you excited to tackle some of the most ambitious technical challenges in Apple Intelligence? Be involved in collaborating closely with our machine learning researchers, engineers, and data scientists? Together, you will orchestrate groundbreaking research initiatives and develop transformative products designed to build a significant impact for billions of users worldwide! 
 
As part of Apple's AI and Machine Learning org, we encourage and create groundbreaking technology for large-scale ML systems, computer vision, natural language processing, and multi-modal understanding and generation. The Data and Machine Learning Innovation (DMLI) team is looking for Machine Learning Engineer to explore new methods, challenge existing metrics or protocols, and develop new insightful practices that will change how we understand data and overcome real-world ML challenges. 
 
Description 
 
As a Machine Learning (ML) Engineer, you will be entrusted with the critical role of innovating and applying state of the art research in ML to tackle complex data problems. The solutions you develop will significantly impact Apple Intelligence, future Apple products and the broader ML development ecosystem. 
 
You will work with a multidisciplinary team to actively participate in Apple Intelligence&rsquo;s data-model co-design and co-develop practice. Your responsibilities will extend to the design and development of a comprehensive data generation and curation framework for Apple Intelligence foundation models at Apple. You will also be responsible to build robust model evaluation pipelines, integral to the continuous improvement and assessment of Apple Intelligence foundation models. 
 
Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to showcase your groundbreaking research work by publishing and presenting at premier academic venues. 
 
Your work may span a variety of directions, including but not limited to: 
 
Develop and implement techniques for creating high-quality synthetic datasets across a variety of domains, including vision, text, and audio data. 
 
Innovate and experiment with new approaches for synthetic data generation to improve the diversity, realism, and representativeness of datasets. 
 
Collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand data requirements and ensure that synthetic datasets are optimized for training foundation models. 
 
Crafting and implementing semi-supervised, self-supervised representation learning techniques for growing the power of both limited labeled data and large-scale unlabeled data. 
 
Develop pipelines and tools to automate synthetic data generation for large-scale AI experiments. 
 
Stay updated with the latest research and industry trends in synthetic data generation, foundational model training, and large-scale data engineering. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
3+ years of experience with developing and evaluating ML applications, and demonstrated experience in understanding and improving data quality. 
 
Strong publication record in relevant conferences (e.g. CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, , etc) 
 
Strong problem-solving and communication skills. 
 
Ph.D/MS degree in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Data Science, Statistics or related areas 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
Demonstrated expertise in computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning with a passion for data-centric machine learning. 
 
Deep understanding in multi-modal foundation models. 
 
Staying on top of emerging trends in generative AI and multi-modal LLM. 
 
Strong programming skills and hands-on experience using the following languages or deep learning frameworks: Python, PyTorch, or Jax. 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; Benefits 
 
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $147,400 and $272,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. 
 
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits. 
 
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

AIML - Machine Learning Engineer, Data and ML Innovation

Play a role in bringing Apple technology to the world. We are looking for a hardworking, dedicated, and results-oriented Synthetic Data Engineer. You would join a team using simulation to generate synthetic data. Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or experience we deliver is the result of us making each other&rsquo;s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It&rsquo;s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you&rsquo;ll do more than join something - you&rsquo;ll add something. 
 
Description 
 
As a Simulation Synthetic Data Engineer, you will help develop next-generation simulation technology powering a broad range of AI/ML efforts at Apple. You will work on highly ambitious projects that transform ideas into production tools and datasets used across the organization to develop new Apple products. 
 
We&rsquo;re looking for an engineer who is both practical and inventive-comfortable extending existing simulation frameworks, experimenting with new approaches, and iterating quickly from prototype to high-quality implementation. You will collaborate closely with engineers, technical artists, animators, and research teams to deliver scalable pipelines and compelling synthetic data. Your work will directly influence dataset quality and model performance across multiple product areas.&quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;Build, enhance, and operate tools and pipelines for scenario creation, simulation execution, and generation of annotated 3D and multi-modal synthetic datasets. 
 
Design and implement prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and production systems that expand the capabilities of our simulation stack. 
 
Deliver high-quality, validated datasets to internal customers-leveraging procedural systems, generative models, scene variation tools, and diverse data sources. 
 
Partner with engineers, animators, and technical artists to transform creative intent into efficient, scalable pipelines for generating, varying, organizing, and validating scenarios. 
 
Develop tools, APIs, and reusable components that allow other teams to easily generate, manage, and automate simulation workflows. 
 
Stay current with advances in simulation, rendering, generative models, VLMs, and synthetic data in academia, industry, and at Apple; introduce new approaches where valuable. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Programming experience in C++ 
 
Experience with real-time simulation engines (Unreal, Unity, Godot, Omniverse, custom engines). 
 
Familiarity with USD, MaterialX, or other modern 3D content standards. 
 
Experience with real-time and offline rendering, ray tracing, lighting, or shading. 
 
Knowledge of physics simulation, sensor simulation, or physically-based modeling. 
 
Experience with industrial/commercial simulation tools or large-scale data pipelines. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
Master&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience. 
 
Strong programming skills in Python, with solid software engineering fundamentals. 
 
Experience with 3D graphics or game engines, including topics such as rendering, animation, scene graphs, or content pipelines. 
 
Familiarity with machine learning workflows, especially perception tasks, generative models, or VLMs. 
 
Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including engineers, artists, and researchers; strong communication skills. 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; Benefits 
 
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $126,800 and $220,900, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. 
 
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits. 
 
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Simulation Synthetic Data Engineer - Special Projects

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