SeniorStaff Software Engineer AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms

The AI Search u0026 Knowledge Platforms team builds amazing products and services for Apples customers while serving as a foundational partner to teams across Apple. The team delivers world-class AI search and knowledge systems powering Siri Apple Intelligence Safari and iMessage and operates the foundational platforms and infrastructure that keep these intelligent experiences running at team builds AI/ML CI/CD pipelines that precompile validate qualify package and deploy all Apple Intelligence and Siri models to over half a billion end-user devices and to Private Cloud Compute inference infrastructure. As a member of the team you would design and build the services and workflows that power the next generation of on-device and server-side AI.

Design develop and maintain services and orchestration workflows that validate qualify package and deploy ML models to end-user devices and Private Cloud Compute and evolve the compatibility and versioning systems that target the right models to the right devices accounting for hardware capabilities OS versions feature sets locales and inter-model with ML OS and platform teams to improve the end-to-end model release process from qualifying models to production deployment.

Proficient in Kotlin or Java with strong object-oriented and functional programming skillsn7 years of experience nExperience with containerized environments (Kubernetes Docker)nDemonstrated experience and ability to collaborate across large cross-functional teamsnStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to reason about complex compatibility and dependency constraintsnB.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

Experience with gRPC Protobuf or similar serialization/RPC building CI/CD pipelinesnExperience with workflow orchestration frameworks such as Temporal or job scheduling systemsnExperience with Python for scripting automation or data processingnExperience with PostgreSQL Redis or similar data stores in high-throughput environments