Sr Software Engineer (Agentic AI), AI & Data Platforms

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas is seeking a Sr Software Engineer to help design and implement the developer experience platform for agentic AI. You will contribute to building the backbone of our AI-powered developer tools that accelerate app development across Apple.

The role requires strong backend and distributed systems expertise, hands-on experience with AI agents and LLMs, and a focus on reliability and scale in production environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, AI, ML, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of industry experience in software engineering or machine learning.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents with LLMs, including RAG, using LangChain, LangGraph, Pydantic AI, or CrewAI.
• Strong programming skills in multiple languages (Python, Java, Go, Node.js, TypeScript) with distributed systems and backend APIs in production.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain backend services and orchestration systems powering multi-agent AI workflows.
• Build reliable systems that integrate large language models into developer tools and services.
• Work on cloud deployments, CI/CD, and MLOps to keep AI services reliable and scalable.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to bring new AI capabilities into production.
• Partner with developers to improve the experience of using AI-powered tools.

Skills

Software engineering

Machine learning

Distributed systems

AI agents

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Pydantic AI

CrewAI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Sr Software Engineer (Agentic AI), AI & Data Platforms

Austin, Texas, United States Machine Learning and AI

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, we believe new insights have a way of becoming excellent products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’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. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. Developer experience platform team is looking for an extraordinary Software engineer to join our team. You will help design, implement various developer front end tools to build our next gen developer experience platform and accelerate app development inside Apple.

Description

The Developer Experience Platform team builds the frameworks, services and AI tools that help Apple’s enterprise developers move faster through the software development lifecycle. We’re creating a new AI-powered developer platform that brings together ai agents and autonomous workflows to support how apps are built across Apple. This is a hands‑on engineering role with broad impact. You’ll contribute to building the backbone of our agentic AI platform, balancing reliability and scale with experimentation and innovation. The right candidate has strong backend and distributed systems expertise, practical experience with AI agents, and a focus on building reliable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain backend services and orchestration systems that power multi-agent AI workflows.
• Build reliable systems that integrate large language models (LLMs) into developer tools and services.
• Work on cloud deployments, CI/CD, and MLOps practices to keep AI services reliable and scalable.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to bring new AI capabilities into production.
• Partner with developers to understand their needs and improve the experience of using AI-powered tools.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of industry experience in software engineering or machine learning
• Hands‑on experience building AI agents with Large Language Models (LLMs), including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Pydantic AI, or CrewAI
• Strong programming skills in multiple languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Node.js, or TypeScript), with solid experience designing and developing distributed systems, backend services, and APIs in production environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with deploying and operating services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and MLOps practices for deploying, scaling, and monitoring LLM‑powered services
• Background in building REST or GraphQL APIs, microservices, and event‑driven systems
• Knowledge of vector databases, memory systems, and human‑in‑the‑loop workflows
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across ML research, platform engineering, and product 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

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