Senior Software Engineer - Data

Sunnyvale, California, United States Software and Services

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to 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. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something.

We are actively seeking an exceptional and highly motivated Engineer to join our team for data processing infrastructure and pipeline development. This role will be instrumental in supporting data-driven R&D across a diverse range of core products and technologies. The ideal candidate possesses a demonstrated history of success in designing and developing robust, scalable, and efficient processing pipelines for multimodal data, including, image, video, text, audio, sensor data, metadata, etc.

In this role, you will be responsible for data processing and curation of the multimodal data. You design and implement systematic processes, automated pipelines, and collaborate with data collection and ML & product engineers to create high quality data, support data-driven product and AIML development, and ensure data compliance with security and privacy regulations.

• Establish and optimize a comprehensive data processing, validation, and curation workflow.
• Design and implement robust, scalable, and efficient infrastructure and pipeline to process multimodal data.
• Design and execute data processing operations to run data processing, monitor its progress, and facilitate efficiency improvement throughout data ingestion and processing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement a scalable framework and pipeline to extract, clean, transform, and standardize the multimodal data and metadata generated from a wide range of sources to make the data trustworthy, discoverable, and accessible.
• Develop and drive the feedback loop between data consumers and data generation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and/or an equivalent engineering field, and 6+ years of industry experience architecting and developing scalable and reliable software, pipeline and platforms for data processing, validation, analytics and curation on the multimodal data (including, image, video, text, audio, sensor data, etc. )
• Experience with Python and SQL
• Experience with data pipeline, modeling, database and query tools, like Dagster, Postgre
  
  SQL, Mango
  
  DB, Trino or equivalent.
• Experience with building and scaling systems on premise and in the cloud

• Passion for data quality and curation, code elegance, clear documentation, operational excellence, attention to details and delivering outstanding user experiences
• Excellent communication skills. Able to confidently express the benefits and constraints of technology solutions to cross-functional technical and non-technical teams.
• Comfortable with rotating on-call for mission-critical operations and applications
• Experience with vision data processing tools like FFmpeg, GStreamer, OpenCV, or equivalent.
• Experience in building Cloud Data Warehouses in Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query or analogous architectures.
• Experience with the practical application of data warehousing concepts, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks like Tensor Flow or PyTorch.
• Experience with machine learning algorithms for data curation and annotation.
• Experience with data collection and/or annotation operations

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $181,100 and $318,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

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