Senior Systems Engineer - Special Projects
Apple
Software Engineering
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 147,400-272,100 / year + Equity
Posted on Jan 30, 2026
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together to do great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. We’d love to work with you.
This cross-functional team nurtures state-of-the-art intelligence ideas into powerful, usable features and systems. We work with the latest AI research and our talented research teams to build innovative implementations of those ideas on Apple platforms. We discuss, debate, and iterate to quickly find out what works, what doesn’t, and what will make of the most magical user experience.
- Research, discuss, and debate the latest in intelligence capabilities across the industry, and the ways those capabilities could form the foundation of future Apple features and products. Including which ones may not make for a good fit.
- Work with ML research teams to build implementations of cutting edge research on Apple platforms.
- Integrate LLMs into existing systems to provide seamless intelligence-powered features and capabilities
- Create robust, scalable architectures for systems that handle data orchestration for AI features
- Be able to quickly prototype an idea so you and the team can work with hands-on products. Then iterate on the best of those prototypes.
- Build tools that help make complex AI systems observable, understandable and debuggabl
- 5+ years of proven experience in software development. Ideally on Apple platforms.
- Strong proficiency in Swift and/or Objective-C
- Deep experience with tools, frameworks, and design patterns common used on Apple platforms
- Proficiency JavaScript and Python
- Experience with or a strong understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, Agentic Systems, or RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) workflows
- Experience integrating LLMs into existing systems
- Experience with API design, both for other engineers to use, but also for AI systems.
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