Platform Engineer – Synthetic Data for AI Pipelines

Apple, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple, Inc. is seeking a software engineer for the AIML platform who will build self-service tools for generating synthetic data and evaluating models. You’ll bridge engineering and product partnerships, shaping requests and validating results on production infrastructure.

You’ll work with ML engineers, data scientists, designers, and safety teams, owning features end to end and applying strong engineering judgment on model ablations and data quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or 3 years of equivalent work experience.
• 3 years of experience building and operating production software in Python.
• Experience debugging distributed systems or data pipelines in production, using logs, metrics, and task state to find root causes.
• Experience deploying machine learning models on GPU infrastructure, including dependency management and GPU memory sizing.
• Experience designing input validation and configuration contracts for systems where late failures are costly.
• Demonstrated ability to explain machine learning concepts and tradeoffs to non-technical partners such as designers or product managers.
• Proven, hands-on use of agentic AI coding tools in day-to-day software development, including judging where they are effective and where their output needs human verification.

Responsibilities

• Own features end to end, from shaping requests with partner teams to validating results on production infrastructure.
• Move between engineering and partnership, building the features that enable synthetic data generation and evaluation.
• Collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, designers, and safety teams to ensure platform usability and safety.

Skills

Python development

Distributed systems

Explain ML concepts to non-technical

Agentic AI coding tools

Engineering judgment

Communication with partners

Education

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

Tools

GPU infrastructure

GPU memory sizing

Job description

Apple, Inc. is seeking a software engineer for the AIML platform who will build self-service tools for generating synthetic data and evaluating models. You’ll bridge engineering and product partnerships, shaping requests and validating results on production infrastructure.

You’ll work with ML engineers, data scientists, designers, and safety teams, owning features end to end and applying strong engineering judgment on model ablations and data quality.