Apple

Software Development Engineer

Apple$140K — $170K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, or a related field with experience in health or biomedical data.
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, particularly in backend development.
  • Proficiency in Python and building web application backends (Flask, FastAPI).
  • Experience integrating LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic) into production web tools.
  • Understanding of data integrity practices in health data collection.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build web-based monitoring and visualization platforms for health studies.
  • Extract insights from complex health data sets for decision-making.
  • Develop intelligent automation systems to support varying scales of user studies.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify user study problems and propose solutions.
  • Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements and prioritize feature improvements.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to impact the development of health-related features in Apple products.
  • Work on cutting-edge technology in health sensor research.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Exposure to large-scale user research studies in the health sector.
Full Job Description
Here is your opportunity to come and join an exciting engineering team responsible for building next-generation health sensors and features. You will be responsible for building new web-based monitoring and visualization platforms, extracting insights from sophisticated data sets, and developing intelligent automation to support multiple user studies per year ranging from focused studies with tens of participants to large-scale studies with thousands of participants. If you are passionate about health research and development, this is an exciting opportunity.

Your work will directly impact the development of health-related features in Apple products. Data Integrity, in this role, means ensuring the collection of high-quality data from health user studies through robust data analysis pipelines and operator-facing tools and dashboards. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to identify user study problems and advise decision-making through data analysis. This role focuses on building new data and platform solutions to improve the usability of our systems for large-scale user studies that gather critical data to design and qualify Apple's health software products.

You will design and build new web-based monitoring and visualization tools that give study teams real-time insight into study health and data quality, serving multiple concurrent studies that range in scale from tens to thousands of participants. You will leverage LLM-based agentic workflows not only within the product itself by integrating OpenAI/Anthropic APIs to create richer, smoother user experiences in study tools, but also within your own development lifecycle, using LLMs in a closed-loop workflow spanning planning, architecture, design review, implementation, PR generation, and deployment.

A key part of this role is partnering directly with the researchers, engineers, and study operations teams who use your tools daily. Each study often comes with its own custom requirements, and you will deeply engage with stakeholders to understand their specific needs, gather feature requests, and prioritize improvements via established planning processes all while upholding Apple's privacy-first policies when handling sensitive health data. You are not just building - you are owning the relationship between your platform and the people who depend on it.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, or equivalent with relevant proven experience with biomedical, health, or sensitive data.

3+ years of software engineering experience

Strong software development skills, with proficiency in Python

Experience integrating LLM-based functionality (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic APIs) into production web tools to create richer, smoother user experiences

Experience leveraging LLMs in a closed-loop development workflow - from planning and architecture, to design review, to implementation, to generating pull requests, to deployment

Preferred Qualifications

7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years in backend web service development

Experience building web application backends for data monitoring and visualization (e.g., Flask, FastAPI, or similar frameworks; REST APIs; serving data to frontend dashboards)

Demonstrated skill and experience with distributed data processing systems such as PySpark and SparkSQL

Demonstrated experience leading design reviews, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical/product roadmaps

Familiarity working with systems such as blob storage, elastic compute, and virtual instances; experience with technologies such as Delta Lake, AWS; container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar); workflow orchestration (Apache Airflow or similar) are all a benefit

Experience with tools such as Git, Docker, Jupyter notebooks, Linux command line

Experience with basic time series data analysis such as trend detection, anomaly identification, signal processing fundamentals

Demonstrated ability to engage directly with tool users and stakeholders to gather requirements, understand workflows, and translate needs into platform features and improvements

Experience working with sensitive or regulated data under strict privacy requirements

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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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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