Apple

Software Engineer - Generative Data Platform, Evaluation

Apple • $150K — $180K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Consumer Technology
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or 3 years of equivalent work experience
  • 3+ years of experience in building and operating production software in Python
  • Experience in debugging distributed systems or data pipelines using logs and metrics
  • Experience deploying machine learning models on GPU infrastructure
  • Ability to design validation and configuration contracts for critical systems
  • Skill in explaining machine learning concepts to non-technical partners
  • Hands-on use of AI coding tools in software development

Responsibilities

  • Understand user needs and translate them into actionable features
  • Integrate and optimize image or video generation models on GPUs
  • Assist design teams in generating their first datasets on the platform
  • Collaborate with feature teams to measure the impact of synthetic data
  • Bridge the gap between synthetic and real data, addressing differences
  • Own end-to-end feature development from concept through production
  • Guide ML engineers and data scientists in using the platform effectively

Benefits

  • Access to a hands-on, collaborative work environment
  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of generative AI technology
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams including designers and ML engineers
  • Room for growth and learning without prior research background in generative models
  • Emphasis on using AI tools to enhance software development efficiency
Full Job Description
In the AI & Machine Learning (AIML) organization, our team builds the self-service tools and platform that turn ideas, text, and images into large-scale generated datasets. We don't produce the datasets ourselves: ML engineers, data scientists, designers, feature teams, ML data operations teams, and Safety and Responsible AI teams across Apple use our platform to generate their own. That data is only valuable if it matches the real world closely enough to train on and to evaluate against, proving our models and features meet Apple's quality bar before they reach customers. As a software engineer on the platform, you'll sit between that technology and the people who depend on it: understanding what they want to create, building the features that make it possible, and helping them get the most from generative AI. It's a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys the people side as much as the code.

Description

You'll spend your days moving between engineering and partnership. Synthetic data here does far more than fill gaps: it lets teams build privacy-preserving digital humans, represent locales and domains that real-world collection underserves, and experiment in days instead of waiting on slow, costly data collection. It also gives Safety and Responsible AI red teams the data they need to stress-test models against misuse and edge cases. One day you might be integrating a new image or video generation model and tuning how it runs on GPUs; the next, you might be helping a design team get their first dataset running on the platform, or working with a feature team on model ablations that measure what synthetic data adds to training and evaluation.

You'll help teams understand where synthetic data differs from the real data their models see, whether that's how images look or subtler differences in metadata, distributions, and labels, and then build what closes those gaps. Your core partners are ML engineers and data scientists, but you'll also work with designers, artists, and others who are newer to machine learning, and help make these systems understandable and approachable for them. You'll own features end to end, from shaping the request with partner teams to validating the result on production infrastructure.

Our team builds with AI coding agents every day, and you'll help shape how we use them well. You don't need a research background in generative models; you'll learn the models on the job. What matters most is strong engineering judgment and the ability to bring people along.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or 3 years of equivalent work experience.

3+ years of experience building and operating production software in Python.

Experience debugging distributed systems or data pipelines in production, using logs, metrics, and task state to find root causes.

Experience deploying machine learning models on GPU infrastructure, including dependency management and GPU memory sizing.

Experience designing input validation and configuration contracts for systems where late failures are costly.

Demonstrated ability to explain machine learning concepts and tradeoffs to non-technical partners such as designers or product managers.

Proven, hands-on use of agentic AI coding tools in day-to-day software development, including judging where they are effective and where their output needs human verification.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working directly with partner teams or internal customers to define and ship features.

Experience measuring the domain gap between synthetic and real data, including visual statistics and non-visual properties such as metadata and label distributions.

Experience with generative image, video, or large language model APIs, including structured output.

Familiarity with image and video file formats and metadata standards.

Experience with batch compute platforms or job schedulers.

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.

Apple Careers

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