Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)
Core
Staff Software Engineer building and scaling Applied AI solutions using LLMs to advance Manufacturing Systems and Operations for Apple's hardware design and supply chain teams.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)
Builds
Production AI solutions integrated into manufacturing and design systems
Domain
Manufacturing / Applied AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLM integration, custom model fine-tuning, API design, Go/Python/Java, system architecture, scaling solutions, prompt optimization, RAG, model monitoring
Preferred skills
model pipeline management, model drift detection, ETL pipelines, SQL/PostgreSQL, Snowflake, manufacturing domain knowledge
Technologies
OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Llama, Defog, Nous Research, PostgreSQL, Snowflake
Responsibilities
Prototype and experiment with new AI approaches, collaborate across organizations to develop production-ready solutions, take ideas from concept to scale, build robust HTTP APIs and backend services, implement model monitoring and evaluation workflows
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact
