Apple · 1 month ago
Sr AI Observability Engineer
Cupertino, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$212K/yr - $318K/yr
7+ years expApple is pioneering the next generation of AI-powered observability solutions and is looking for an experienced AI observability engineer. The role involves designing and building AI observability solutions that enhance Apple's intelligent products, while collaborating with a team to lead development and provide technical guidance.
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Responsibilities
Design and build AI observability solutions that power Apple Intelligence, Search, and AI infrastructure
Collaborate with a team of engineers to lead the design and development of user-facing observability features for AIML products and infrastructure
Provide technical guidance, sharing observability best practices and know-how, leveraging AI pipelines and mentoring the team to develop and deliver best-of-class features and a delightful user experience for all users
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in building ML pipelines, portable workflows and in model tuning to deploy ML and LLM models in production for customer-facing features
7+ years software engineering experience and strong background in computer science: distributed systems, algorithms and data structures, APIs and highly-scalable, reliable systems and micro-services
Demonstrated experience using LLM and ML models for AIOps and model observability
Demonstrated experience using LLMs, ML frameworks i.e. TensorFlow, PyTorch and libraries like Scikit-learn, NumPy, LangChain, MLFlow, KubeFlow
Demonstrated experience in delivering well-architected, reliable, highly-scalable cloud-native distributed systems for data management, observability or analytics services
Strong software engineering experience in design, development and testing in cloud-native environments
Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Javascript, Java
Demonstrated experience in building large-scale micro-services using public cloud infrastructure and/or 'private cloud' environments
Experience developing intelligent detection and resolution features for incident management, automated remediation and root cause analysis
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong problem solving skills
Excellent interpersonal skills for collaborating across teams, stakeholders, and open source collaborators
Preferred
Knowledge of current Gen AI research and techniques in the following areas: MCPs, RAG systems, Agentic AI (multi-agent orchestration, tool calling)
Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks (e.g. LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) for building multi-step reasoning and tool-using agents
Demonstrated experience in building observability systems for metrics, distributed tracing, logs, profiling and in building observability data collection using OpenTelemetry
Demonstrated proficiency in AWS services such as EKS and native Kubernetes, storage such as S3, networking, database and observability services
Experience with large scale observability visualization systems with knowledge of popular visualization tools like Grafana, DataDog, and ELK
Proficiency using cloud-native software development tools including coding, CI/CD and testing frameworks
Building large-scale incident management, alert management and notification systems
Active open source project contributions is a plus
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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10001+ employees
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