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Apple · 2 months ago

AIML - Sr Backend Engineer, Data and ML Innovation

Seattle, Washington, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$140K/yr - $258K/yr

10+ years exp

Apple is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for their Data and ML Innovation team to contribute to the development of Foundation Models. The role involves driving backend innovations, building scalable data pipelines, and improving model training efficiency and performance.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Training data pipeline development. Convert raw data into format acceptable by training jobs on GCP and AWS. Leverage internal and open-sourced training modules

Large scale inferences: Leverage internal and open-sourced inference stack to generate inferences with fine-tuned LLMs on massive amounts of data, for pre-train and post-training

Data processing and data filtering: Have the ability to efficiently process and filter very large amounts of data, often times messy

Scalable web services backend and APIs to support data access and data inspection tools

Qualification

PythonREST APIData processingConcurrencyParallelismLarge scale inferencesStreaming-processingCommunicatorSelf-motivatedCreative thinking

Required

BS in Computer Science or Equivalent

10+ years of programming experience in Python

Extensive experiences in concurrency and parallelism, functional programming, decorators

Familiarity in other programming languages (Java/GoLang/Rust/Swift)

Proficient in REST API, Redis, VectorDB or other large scale data storage systems

Solid foundational programming skills (algorithms, data structures, OOP, etc)

Experience designing, writing, reviewing, testing and delivering software for applications and systems at scale

Preferred

Familiarity with streaming-processing (Kafka)

Familiarity with a variety of build tools (Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Gradle)

Experience providing architecture and design guidance

A good communicator with clear and concise, active listening and empathy skills

Are self-motivated and curious. Strive to continually learn on the job

Have demonstrated creative and critical thinking with an innate drive to improve how things work

Have a high tolerance for ambiguity

Benefits

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

A range of discounted products and free services

Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition

Discretionary bonuses or commission payments

Relocation

Company

Apple

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Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.

Founded in 1976

Cupertino, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.apple.com

H1B Sponsorship

Apple has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (6998)

2024 (3766)

2023 (3939)

2022 (4822)

2021 (4060)

2020 (3656)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$5.67B

Key Investors

Berkshire HathawayMicrosoftSequoia Capital

2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B

2025-01-16Post Ipo Debt· $0.31M

2021-04-30Post Ipo Equity

Leadership Team

Tim Cook

CEO

Craig Federighi

SVP, Software Engineering

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