Apple

Senior AI Engineer

Apple$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in ML, software engineering, or data science with a focus on Applied AI and LLMs.
  • Proven ability to lead AI projects from inception to implementation.
  • Proficient in Python, FastAPI, LangChain, and RESTful API design.
  • Experience with LLM APIs, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation workflows.
  • Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks and Claude Code-style patterns.
  • Strong grounding in data structures and pipeline orchestration.

Responsibilities

  • Build, test, and optimize intelligent agents for sales data platforms.
  • Design retrieval pipelines and embedded AI features.
  • Translate complex business challenges into AI-driven solutions.
  • Communicate AI insights to stakeholders and senior leaders effectively.
  • Manage multiple priorities throughout project lifecycles.

Benefits

  • Join a passionate team focused on impactful AI solutions.
  • Opportunity to work in an encouraging and expansive learning environment.
  • Engagement in cutting-edge AI technologies and methodologies.
Full Job Description
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 Senior AI Engineer with strong software development skills and a passion for applying LLMs and Agentic workflows to real-world business problems. You'll be responsible for building, testing, and optimizing intelligent agents, retrieval pipelines, and embedded AI features across our sales data platforms.

10+ years of experience in ML, software engineering, or data science, with recent focus on Applied AI and LLMs. Ability to lead development of AI projects from start to finish. Proficiency in Python (FastAPI, LangChain, or similar frameworks), context 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 with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, Google ADK, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar frameworks. Familiarity with Claude Code-style agentic engineering patterns, including subagents, hooks, MCP integrations, permissions, and session-based workflows. Bias for action, curiosity, and a collaborative mindset. Familiarity with telemetry and evaluation frameworks for AI agents. Ability to design business-context layers that combine structured data, semantic definitions, user permissions, domain logic, and unstructured knowledge to produce grounded AI responses. Strong time management skills with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams. Able to balance competing priorities, long-term projects, and ad hoc requirements. Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, constantly evolving business environment. Comfortable with rapid prototyping, reproduction, and validation of research ideas. We're looking for someone with an eagerness and ability to learn new skills and solve dynamic problems in an encouraging and expansive environment. B.S Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent work experience

Hands-on experience building production-grade AI agents, including tool calling, routing, multi-step reasoning flows, agent handoffs, memory/session management, and human-in-the-loop patterns. Ability to balance rapid prototyping with production readiness, especially when moving from proof-of-concept to scalable enterprise features. 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. 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. Familiarity with embeddings, retrieval algorithms, knowledge graphs, vector databases, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and graph-based approaches to enterprise knowledge modeling. 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.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Learn more about Apple
Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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