Generative AI Engineer - Real-Time User Experiences

Apple, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental

retirement benefits

discounted products and free services

tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer for Generative Experiences in Seattle, WA to bridge backend ML with user interfaces, delivering fast, accurate, and context-aware experiences using LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

You will collaborate with design, product, and client-side teams to craft seamless experiences across Siri, Spotlight, and Safari. The role emphasizes strong problem solving, communication, and implementation of secure, scalable ML integrations in a cross-functional

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry related experience, working in collaborative environments.
• Experience with prompt engineering and prompt tuning techniques to tasks, conducting systematic evaluation and iteration based on quality and consistency metrics.
• Opinionated product-sense and focus on the end user-experience
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
• Proficient in at least two programming languages such as: C/C++, Go, Python, Java
• Understanding product requirements then translating them into engineering tasks
• Bachelors in Computer Science or related field or 2 years of equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Engineering Model-Driven Products: Leverage the latest advancements in machine learning by building the robust software application layer that translates foundation model capabilities into intuitive, generative user experiences.
• Complex Integrations & Privacy: Orchestrate ML APIs with internal data and services to power RAG architectures, ensuring all integrations maintain Apple's high standards for secure, direct, and privacy-preserving data handling.
• Championing the User Experience: Partner closely with design, product, and client-side teams to craft elegant solutions for emerging generative UI paradigms, ensuring fluid text streaming, dynamic widget generation, and graceful fallbacks.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with diverse teams—including ML infrastructure, quality, data, and core platform—to define system contracts, ensuring optimal latency, robust error handling, and scalable orchestration.
• Evaluation & Telemetry Tooling: Develop the engineering frameworks, benchmark tooling, and telemetry required to accurately measure, calibrate, and evaluate the real-time performance and quality of model responses in production.
• Global Reach & Mentorship: Work with the globalization team to ensure localized, culturally aligned experiences, and mentor aspiring engineers to broaden their horizons and amplify the team's overall impact.]
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Skills

Prompt engineering

Prompt tuning

Product sense

End user experience

Problem solving

Communication skills

C/C++

Go

Python

Java

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science or related field

Tools

RAG architectures

LLMs integration

APIs

Server-side development

Job description

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer for Generative Experiences in Seattle, WA to bridge backend ML with user interfaces, delivering fast, accurate, and context-aware experiences using LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

You will collaborate with design, product, and client-side teams to craft seamless experiences across Siri, Spotlight, and Safari. The role emphasizes strong problem solving, communication, and implementation of secure, scalable ML integrations in a cross-functional