Senior Software Engineer, Intelligent Automation & Developer Platforms

At Apple we work every day to create products that enrich peoples lives. The Apple Ads team builds privacy-focused advertising platforms that operate at massive scale across Apple are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build intelligent internal platforms automation frameworks and developer tools that improve quality and engineering productivity across Apple is a hands-on engineering role focused on building AI/LLM-powered internal tooling and automation systems across mobile backend API and data platform ecosystems. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building scalable automation developer infrastructure and full-stack engineering platforms.

In this role you will help build AI/LLM-powered internal tools that act as the intelligent immune system for Apple Adscontinuously understanding signals across products detecting risk patterns early and enabling autonomous validation and recovery workflows before issues impact users. You will work on unifying fragmented solutions across multiple Apple Ads business lines into a single intelligence layer integrated with a unified validation platform replacing bespoke tooling with a scalable and adaptive ecosystem accessible through prompts APIs and MCP servers. This role is focused on leveraging existing AI models and platforms to build intelligent internal developer tools rather than developing or training AI/ML models. We are looking for candidates who can operate effectively in ambiguous environments drive clarity across complex problem spaces and influence cross-functional teams through strong technical leadership and excellent communication skills including experience partnering with senior engineers and engineering leadership.

10 years of experience building scalable test automation frameworks and leading QE strategy across complex distributed systems spanning web mobile APIs and data platformsnStrong programming expertise in Python or Java with deep experience in modern automation frameworks such as Playwright or Selenium mobile testing ecosystems including iOS/XCTest/XCUITest and distributed systems such as Hadoop Hive and HDFSnProven ability to drive adoption of emerging technologies such as AI/LLMs MCP and agentic systems to enable intelligent automation and self-serve developer workflowsnExpertise in debugging complex system-level issues validating APIs and data pipelines and driving root cause analysis across integrated services and platformsnDemonstrated ability to influence engineering standards operate effectively in ambiguous environments and collaborate with senior engineers and engineering leadership across cross-functional teams

Experience designing AI driven or agent based automation systems including MCP aligned architecturesnExperience building scalable validation strategies for data platforms including streaming systems (Kafka Spark)nStrong background in API testing data validation and building self service QE platformsnExperience in advertising technology or similar large scale high complexity ecosystemsnProven track record of leading cross org initiatives and driving alignment across multiple teams