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Apple Senior AI Architect Apple Data Platform United States, West Virginia 853149874
05.09.2025
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As a Senior AI Architect on the Apple Data Platform, you’ll play a critical role in shaping and scaling the platform that powers AI application development across Apple. You’ll architect, prototype, and drive technical roadmap for generative AI offerings ranging from agent development, model and prompt selection, RAG configuration, evaluation tooling and overall development experience for ML and AI adoption. You will also partner closely with organizational leads on various cross-team initiatives for Apple Data Platform.
- Innovate, research, diagnose, optimize, or prototype features and solutions for key business initiatives
- Provide technical advice to management
- Define and drive the technical vision, roadmap, and strategy for Apple Data Platform’s GenAI offerings
- Inspire teams to innovate, invent, and implement scalable solutions for complex data problems
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams across Apple to ensure effective adoption of GenAI capabilities in high-impact workflows
- Partner with stakeholders to build reusable AI agents that enhance productivity, automate reasoning tasks, and integrate securely with internal systems and tools
- Mentor new hires and fellow engineers, fostering growth in technical depth and platform mindset
- Establish best practices and processes that ensure engineering excellence, operational sustainability, and a seamless developer experience
- Promote a healthy, inclusive, and innovation-driven team culture with a focus on experimentation, learning, and long-term platform impact
- 15+ years of software development experience in distributed systems and/or ML/AI
- 8+ years of experience as an Architect, guiding teams through complex design decisions and setting high benchmarks for code quality, performance, and scalability
- In-depth understanding of gen AI landscape, and large language models (LLMs) and their applications, including inferencing, embedding, RAG, and knowledge base integration
- Experience building AI agents capable of complex multi-step reasoning and tool usage, with a focus on reliability, traceability, and composability
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or similar languages, with an emphasis on AI/ML systems development and platform engineering
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and influence product development through a combination of technical leadership and user-centered thinking
- Passion for operational excellence, automation, and delivering scalable, developer-friendly AI infrastructure
- B.S, M.S. or PhD Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent work experience
- Bonus if you have experience in the following areas:
- Expertise in AWS Cloud
- Experience in fine-tuning and customizing foundation models to improve task-specific performance and domain alignment
- Hands on experience in using Kubernetes as orchestration layer
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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