Apple · 15 hours ago
Senior ML Data Engineer, ISE
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$181K/yr - $318K/yr
7+ years expApple is seeking a Senior ML Data Engineer to join their ML Data Team within the Intelligent System Experience group. The role focuses on acquiring, synthesizing, and ensuring the quality of ML data, while also operating and maintaining data pipelines to support various Apple products.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Operate and maintain data pipelines to effectively process up to billion-scale multimodal data
Find creative ways to automate workflows or build self service tools, implement a variety of data tools for visualization, compliance and ML enrichment
Help bring frontier generative model and agentic capabilities in our pipelines to further optimize our data operations ; and production-ize synthetic data workflows including orchestration and lineage
Identify opportunities for improvement of internal infrastructure offerings, and influence roadmaps of partner teams to build or improve key components we rely on
Qualification
Required
7+ years of industry experience as a data engineer serving various ML applications (vision domain preferred)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Preferred
Proven experience designing, automating and scaling large data pipelines (petabyte scale desired) using state of the art processing technologies (eg familiarity with Iceberg, BigQuery, Airflow, Spark, etc.)
Expertise in Python, Go or another modern programming language; you are expected to produce high quality, efficient code and participate in code reviews
Strong ability to design and lead a technical roadmap, work with cross functional teams and a diversity of profiles, proven capacity to influence and build alignment
Demonstrated prior experience in delivering large scale multimodal datasets for foundation models
Self-starter, able to handle ambiguity, comfortable in a fast-pace environment, identify risks, mitigate, and autonomously find the right people and tools to get the job done
Proven track record of mentoring and growing engineers, lift the level of software engineering excellence in a ML data ops team typically focused on short term deliveries
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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Funding
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Tim Cook
CEO
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SVP, Software Engineering
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