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The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple&rsquo;s long-held passion for combining art and technology. This team powers the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books, operating at massive scale and meeting Apple&rsquo;s high standards for performance and quality to deliver entertainment in over 35 languages across more than 150 countries. 
 
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join Apple Services Engineering (ASE) who brings a deep passion for building large-scale distributed data processing systems, frameworks, and platforms using big data technologies. 
 
Description 
 
As a team member of the ASE Analytics &amp; Data Engineering team, you will have significant responsibility and influence in shaping the team&rsquo;s future direction. This role is inherently cross-functional, and the ideal candidate will work closely across disciplines. We are looking for someone with a strong love for data and the ability to iterate quickly across all stages of the data pipeline lifecycle. 
 
This position involves working on a small, highly collaborative team to develop large-scale data pipelines and analytical solutions using big data technologies. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong engineering and communication skills, along with a belief that data-driven processes lead to exceptional products. You should have a passion for quality and an ability to understand and evolve sophisticated systems. 
 
&quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;You will have the opportunity to: 
 
Work with a cross-functional team, collaborating with partners across product, engineering, operations, and business, and closely partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable engineering solutions 
 
Help drive architectural vision to support future growth and opportunities 
 
Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and datasets that power key product features and insights, while protecting user privacy 
 
Own data quality, scalability, and SLAs for assigned datasets and pipelines 
 
Champion technical excellence and cultivate team spirit by contributing to best practices, documentation, shared tools, and solutions to common problems 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Experience with GDPR compliance and best practices for collecting, processing, and sharing data responsibly. 
 
Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to listen, influence, and drive solutions cohesively. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
Bachelor&rsquo;s or Master&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience. 
 
3+ years of experience building production systems using Java and/or Scala, with strong proficiency in Java and/or Scala for large-scale distributed data processing and familiarity with functional programming paradigms. 
 
Strong computer science fundamentals with proven problem-solving skills. 
 
Deep understanding of distributed batch and streaming data processing systems such as Spark, Flink, and Kafka. 
 
Experience with big data ecosystem technologies such as HDSF, Hadoop, S3, MPP database, Kubernetes and Airflow. 
 
Proven track record of designing, launching, and scaling production-quality data pipelines that power product features. 
 
Strong data intuition, backed by solid SQL and data analysis 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 $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 Engineer, Big Data - Apple Services Engineering

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 
 
6+ 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

We&rsquo;re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next generation of large-scale data systems that power high-impact decisions across Siri. In this role, you'll operate at the intersection of engineering excellence and business impact. You&rsquo;ll design and implement scalable, reliable systems to transform raw data into actionable insights for leadership. This is a high-visibility, high-impact position with the opportunity to influence the direction of products and strategy. 
 
The Siri User Experience Metrics team is at the heart of shaping how users interact with Siri every day. We use data, metrics and insights to continuously improve Siri&rsquo;s User Experience across Apple platforms including iOS, macOS, visionOS, tvOS and watchOS. 
 
Our team defines and owns the most critical user facing metrics, identifies quality issues, builds scalable reporting tools and delivers actionable insights that directly inform product decisions. We collaborate closely with product, platform and feature teams to ensure Siri not only works - but delivers exceptional User Experience. From response time to failure tracking, we make sure Siri feels fast, natural and helpful wherever users need it. 
 
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Siri User Experience Metrics team, you will have significant influence and responsibility in identifying and alert on quality issues using data and metrics to shape Siri&rsquo;s User Experience. 
 
If this sounds like you, you're someone who&rsquo;s laser-focused on impact - bringing sharp programming skills, strong problem-solving abilities and clear communication to the table, all driven by a passion for building exceptional products. 
 
You'll have the opportunity to drive meaningful impact across all Apple platforms by collaborating closely with Engineering, Product, Testing and Quality teams. Your work will directly enhance the Siri experience for billions of users - shaping how people interact with Apple every day. 
 
Description 
 
Join us in building the data backbone of Siri&rsquo;s regression detection system - the platform that enables engineering teams and senior leadership to see, understand, and improve product quality. In this role, you&rsquo;ll build large-scale data systems that power metrics observability at scale. Success in this role means not only technical excellence, but also the ability to collaborate across teams, communicate effectively and align diverse stakeholders around solving complex, high-impact challenges. 
 
You thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments and are comfortable navigating ambiguity to deliver meaningful, incremental impact. You bring strong problem-solving skills, operate with a high degree of autonomy and have a track record of executing effectively. With a commitment to continuous learning and attention to detail, you actively seek opportunities to innovate and share knowledge. You follow engineering best practices - including unit testing, CI/CD, documentation, monitoring, and alerting - to ensure reliable, maintainable solutions. In this role, you&rsquo;ll collaborate closely with stakeholders to understand metric needs, provide technical guidance, gather requirements and deliver robust data solutions and intuitive dashboards. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Experience supporting the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, including data ingestion, feature pipelines, batch inference, and model monitoring in production environments. 
 
Hands-on experience building, scheduling, and maintaining data and ML workflows using orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow 
 
Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and integrating data pipelines with cloud-native storage and compute services 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
7 years of development experience and Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field or 5 years development experience and PhD in Computer science or related field. 
 
Expert knowledge of one or more object-oriented programming languages (Java, Objective-C, C++, Scala, Swift etc) or scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Bash etc.). 
 
Experience working with Spark or other distributed data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Presto, Flink, Druid) for building efficient and large scale data systems. 
 
Expertise in development of big data systems and ETL for product metrics and analysis of large data volumes to identify patterns, draw insights and troubleshoot issues. 
 
Knowledge of SQL to analyze data, derive insights and drive improvements. 
 
Leadership experience, including being a technical lead for complex, cross functional development projects demonstrating good technical judgement and prioritization 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 $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.

Sr Software Engineer, Siri User Experience Metrics and Data

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you can accomplish. 
 
Would you like the stimulation and challenges of building world-class, extraordinary scalable systems that power App Store, Music, TV+, Fitness+, Arcade, Payments and many more? Then this is the opportunity for you at Apple! We strive to provide a flawless experience for millions of customers and developers. 
 
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join Apple Services Engineering (ASE) who brings deep passion for building distributed large scale data processing systems, frameworks and platforms using big data technologies. 
 
Description 
 
Data is our first class citizen and the foundation of any AI features. The volume of the data is on petabytes scale. And we are software engineers who build distributed systems to generate data analytics. The systems should scale well, be highly available and provide consistent results. 
 
The systems we build have significant impact on our stakeholders. And most importantly, we are deeply committed to Apple&rsquo;s privacy policy, which forms Apple&rsquo;s core values. You will have important responsibility and influence in designing and building the data platform to empower businesses, operations, data analytics and AI feature. &quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;Join a fast growing team of data engineers to develop and iterate quickly on all stages of data processing. 
 
Lead, design, develop, and drive the unique solutions necessary to scale to Apple Service&rsquo;s diverse data requirements. 
 
Innovate and inspire a scalable data vision for current and extension to support AI needs. Influence internal teams, partners, and stakeholders to execute on that vision. 
 
Drive for quality, scalability and a strong collaborative environment. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Strong analytical skills with solid understanding of data structures and algorithms. 
 
Excellent communicator, able to explain complex concepts clearly. 
 
Strong interest in processing data to power embedded and AI features. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with 8+ years of experience. 
 
Strong programming skills in Java, Scala, SQL, with hands-on experience in distributed compute/storage systems like Spark, Iceberg, Cassandra, Hadoop/HDFS, AWS/S3. 
 
Multi-year experience in big data processing of batch and streaming using Flink and Spark. 
 
Proven ability to lead engineering projects from design to production across teams. 
 
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.

Sr. Software Engineer, Big Data - Apple Services Engineering

Are you excited about using data to shape the experience of products used by hundreds of millions of people around the world? 
 
The Evaluation Data Engineering team, part of Apple&rsquo;s SWE organization, builds the scalable and reliable data platform that powers Siri, Search, and Machine Learning across Apple. 
 
We&rsquo;re looking for collaborative and mission-driven software engineers who care deeply about data quality, user impact, and building at scale. 
 
If you&rsquo;re passionate about tackling complex data challenges, eager to work with petabytes of data, and inspired by Apple&rsquo;s commitment to privacy and innovation, we&rsquo;d love to hear from you. 
 
Description 
 
In this role, you&rsquo;ll work cross-functionally across product and data science teams to build large-scale stream and batch processing data pipelines that power Analytics, Experimentation, and Machine Learning. 
 
You will design a unified and groundbreaking data processing framework using Flink, and/or Spark. 
 
Your work will focus on optimizing performance, ensuring data quality, and contributing to a long-term vision that extends the framework&rsquo;s capabilities to new user scenarios and groundbreaking machine learning applications. 
 
You will collaborate closely with Siri, Search, and other teams to design solutions that transform raw data into datasets that drive innovation. 
 
You&rsquo;ll automate dataset lifecycles with strong quality standards and help partners confidently use the data for product insights. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Strong in algorithms, data structures, data modeling, and SQL, with experience working on large-scale, complex, and high-dimensional datasets. 
 
Experience with machine learning algorithms or pipelines, particularly in the context of data engineering. 
 
Experience supporting ML engineers or data scientists with feature engineering or model data pipelines is a plus. 
 
Familiarity with testing tools and methodologies for validating large-scale, distributed data systems (e.g., data quality checks, pipeline testing frameworks, fault tolerance testing). 
 
Proven software engineering fundamentals, including experience with design, testing, version control, and CI/CD best practices. 
 
Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. 
 
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
7+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed data processing systems at scale. 
 
5+ years of hands-on experience with stream and/or batch processing technologies such as Flink, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Iceberg, and Trino. 
 
2-3 years of experience in full-stack development 
 
Proficient in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Java, Scala, and Python). 
 
MS or BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in data engineering. 
 
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.

AIML - Sr Software Data Engineer, Evaluation

In this position, the candidate will be working for the Hardware Validation Engineering (HVE) team on post-Silicon hardware system validation of next generation Mac systems. Our Engineering Team is responsible for architecting methods to test new system hardware with the macOS environment to catch issues early in the hardware life cycle. You will be a key technical and logistical contributor and will utilize your in-depth data analytic skills to help provide insight into Hardware behaviors related to Silicon and System performance, power, temperature and fault / error issues. 
 
Description 
 
As a Data Scientist / Analyst within the Hardware team your job responsibilities will include: 
 
Analyze large-scale hardware telemetry including power rails, thermal sensors, Power Silicon and SoC counters and performance logs, and stress-test measurements etc. 
 
Apply statistical modeling and ML techniques to identify anomalies, drift, hardware degradation patterns, and emerging failure signatures. 
 
Develop feature extraction pipelines tailored to silicon behavior-examples: rate-of-change of thermal zones, correlation of voltage droops with workload transitions, PMU-based bottleneck signatures. 
 
Build predictive models that estimate performance/power deviations, reliability risks, or stress-induced failures. 
 
Create clear, high-signal visualizations (e.g., multi-axis time-series overlays, workload-power envelopes, thermal gradients, event timelines) to support hardware debug and performance analysis. 
 
Automate root-cause discovery workflows using statistical correlations, temporal pattern detection, clustering of abnormal runs, and hardware-aware signal decomposition. 
 
Work closely with silicon design, system validation, and performance engineering teams to turn data insights into actionable design or validation recommendations. 
 
Continuously refine modeling and feature engineering methods as new hardware blocks, sensors, counters, and test modes become available. 
 
Data Extraction, Parsing and Storage own the pipeline for extraction and and storage into Databases and the structure. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Experience with dashboard platforms (Grafana, InfluxDB, Plotly Dash, Tableau). 
 
Familiarity with test automation data, debug logs, or hardware lab measurement tools. 
 
Experience in product validation, reliability, performance characterization, or silicon bring-up. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Computer Engineering, or Computer Science. 
 
Data Science / Statistical Expertise: Ability to handle asynchronous, high-frequency hardware telemetry and create anomaly detection based algorithms. 
 
Programming &amp; Tools: Python skills (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Plotly). 
 
Ability to write clean, reproducible analytical scripts for large datasets. SQL and experience working with validation data warehouses. 
 
Visualization Skills: Must be comfortable creating custom plots and interactive exploratory visualizations using Python and other analytical tools. 
 
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.

Software Development Engineer - Data

The Apple Ray team is seeking a Senior / Staff Software Engineer with strong distributed systems expertise and a solid background in machine learning. In this hybrid role, you will design and build core components of Apple&rsquo;s unified data+ML platform powered by open-source Ray, while also partnering with ML teams to ensure the platform meets the needs of large-scale training and inference workloads. 
 
You will contribute to the distributed runtime, orchestration layer, and system APIs that power Apple&rsquo;s intelligent features across products and services. This role is ideal for a software engineer who enjoys low-level systems work but is also fluent in ML workflows and models at scale. 
 
Description 
 
Apple Ray integrates deeply with Apple&rsquo;s data and ML ecosystem to provide a unified platform for building, orchestrating, and scaling complex ML and data pipelines. As a Software Engineer with ML background, you will design distributed systems that support large-scale model training, tuning, and inference across heterogeneous compute environments-from bare-metal GPU clusters to cloud-native infrastructure. 
 
You will build features that enhance developer productivity for ML engineers, improve resource efficiency, and advance the performance and reliability of Apple&rsquo;s ML workloads. You&rsquo;ll collaborate closely with ML practitioners to translate model and pipeline needs into robust platform capabilities, while also improving the underlying distributed runtime and control plane. 
 
This role requires strong engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience with ML systems, and a passion for building scalable infrastructure.&quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;Build scalable distributed systems and platform components using Ray that power Apple&rsquo;s data+ML workflows. 
 
Develop APIs, libraries, and services that improve the efficiency and usability of large-scale ML training and inference pipelines. 
 
Optimize performance and resource utilization across GPU/CPU clusters for ML workloads running at Apple scale. 
 
Collaborate with ML teams to understand model and pipeline needs and translate them into robust platform features. 
 
Design fault-tolerant orchestration mechanisms, autoscaling strategies, and runtime improvements for distributed ML jobs. 
 
Diagnose complex issues across distributed systems and ML pipelines to ensure reliability and availability. 
 
Improve observability, monitoring, and debugging capabilities targeted at ML-centric distributed workloads. 
 
Contribute to architectural decisions and, where appropriate, upstream enhancements to Ray and related tools. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Experience with distributed training frameworks (DeepSpeed, Horovod, FSDP, ZeRO). 
 
Background in optimizing GPU workloads or performance benchmarking. 
 
Experience with model orchestration systems or ML platforms. 
 
Contributions to open-source ML or distributed systems projects. 
 
Familiarity with large-scale data systems such as Spark, Flink, or similar. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
6+ years building distributed systems, high-scale backend services, or compute runtimes. 
 
Solid background in ML workflows, model training, model serving, or data pipeline development. 
 
Proficiency in Python, plus strong experience in a systems-level language (C++, Rust, Go, or Java). 
 
Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow and familiarity with GPU-based training. 
 
Understanding of parallelism strategies, model scaling, or distributed training concepts. 
 
Experience with cluster orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE) or large-scale compute systems. 
 
Strong debugging skills across distributed and ML-centric runtime environments. 
 
Ability to work cross-functionally with ML engineers, data engineers, and infrastructure teams. 
 
B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related technical fields - or comparable software engineering experience. 
 
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.

Senior ML Engineer, Apple Ray, Apple Data Platform

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