US AI Software Engineer

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming outstanding products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Apple’s Sales organization generates the revenue needed to fuel our ongoing development of products and services. This, in turn, enriches the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. We are, in many ways, the face of Apple to our largest customers. Apple's US Decision Intelligence (DI) team is looking for a talented individual who is passionate about crafting, implementing, and operating AI solutions that have a direct and measurable impact on Apple Sales and its customers. We’re looking for a hands-on AI Software Engineer to build the glue between AI services and the surfaces that matter—whether it’s dashboards, web interfaces, internal tools, or real-time APIs. You’ll work across LLM agent endpoints, front-end triggers, and platform APIs to bring AI experiences to life with performance and reliability. This role will operate in both capacities, to augment existing AI roadmap, as well as innovate and trailblazing new frontier tech projects, crafting AI experiences that reduce time to insights and catalyze decision making. AI is a team sport, and in your role, you will be key in leading and influencing teams on the translation of business problems and questions into GenAI solutions.

In this role, you will:

• Design modular APIs, SDKs, and microservices to integrate LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), traditional ML models, and data pipelines.
• Drive interoperability with existing ML systems (e.g., forecasting, attribution, anomaly detection) and support downstream apps like dashboards, web tools, and chat interfaces.
• Partner closely with data science, engineering, and sales ops to embed context-aware intelligence in decision-making tools.
• Lead technical decision-making on infrastructure components, embedding safety mechanisms (e.g., autonomy sliders, grounding checks, model monitoring).
• Build scalable pipelines for multi-modal agent input, memory, and semantic routing.
• Collaborate closely with business teams to incorporate AI into their weekly cadences.
• Develop and maintain services that embed GenAI capabilities into production systems.
• Collaborate with frontend and UX teams to integrate GenAI into dashboards and internal tools.
• Own parts of the platform API layer connecting LLM agents with user-facing apps.
• Ensure scalability, performance, and observability of deployed GenAI services.
• Support continuous delivery of new features with unit testing and CICD best practices.

• 8+ years of experience in Software Development, ML, and/or data science with recent focus on GenAI and LLMs.
• Eagerness and ability to learn new skills and solve dynamic problems in an encouraging and expansive environment.
• Ability to lead development of AI Software from start to finish.
• Strong JavaScript expertise. Experienced in Front-end development using React, and API development with Express.
• Experience building REST/GraphQL APIs and integrating with external services.
• Comfort with ambiguity. Ability to architect a full orchestrator and business context layer for sales.
• Proficiency in Python (FastAPI, LangChain, or similar frameworks), prompt engineering, and RESTful API design.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, embeddings, vector databases, and RAG workflows.
• Solid grounding in data structures, async programming, and pipeline orchestration.
• Experience working with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Weights & Biases).
• Familiarity with telemetry and evaluation frameworks for AI agents.
• Experience working with data science teams on insights generation leveraging LLMs.
• Knowledge of project management, productivity, and design tools such as Wrike and Sketch.
• Strong time management skills with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams.
• Proven experience designing scalable, cloud-native platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or on-prem hybrid).
• Able to balance competing priorities, long-term projects, and ad hoc requirements.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, constantly evolving business environment.
• Familiarity with Gen AI paradigms.
• B.S Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent work experience.

• Strong experience articulating and translating business questions into AI solutions.
• Communicate results and insights effectively to partners and senior leaders, as well as both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with anomaly detection and causal inference models.
• Sound communication skills - adept at messaging domain and technical content, at a level appropriate for the audience. Strong ability to gain trust with stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Proven experience working with LLMs and GenAI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.).
• Familiarity with embedding, retrieval algorithms, agents, and data modeling for vector development graphs.
• Other complementary technologies for distributed systems architecture and asynchronous messaging, agent communication, and catching like RabbitMQ, Redis, and Valkey are preferred.
• Advanced Degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Economics, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or a similar quantitative field is preferred.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $181,100 and $272,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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.