Data Engineer for Scalable AI Evaluation

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Employee stock purchase plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple in Cupertino seeks a Software Data Engineer to build tools, data pipelines, and evaluation platforms that support scalable model evaluation across many runs. You will own features from prototype through production, using lean code practices and CI/CD in a quality-first environment.

The role emphasizes reliable data architectures, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and deploying production-grade services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field, or 3 years of experience.
• 3+ years of experience building and operating production software in Python.
• Experience debugging distributed systems or data pipelines in production.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support new and existing features in a hands-on capacity.
• Build tools and services that support model evaluation at scale.
• Build and maintain pipelines for evaluation datasets, run results, and metrics.
• Design data models and storage that make evaluation results reproducible and queryable.
• Deploy, monitor, and operate services on production-grade infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems debugging

Input validation design

Agentic AI coding tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Python

CI/CD

Logs & metrics tooling

Job description

Apple in Cupertino seeks a Software Data Engineer to build tools, data pipelines, and evaluation platforms that support scalable model evaluation across many runs. You will own features from prototype through production, using lean code practices and CI/CD in a quality-first environment.

The role emphasizes reliable data architectures, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and deploying production-grade services.