Software Engineer; GenAi - AI Agents), AI & Data Platforms; AiDP

Software Engineer (Gen Ai - AI Agents), AI & Data Platforms (AiDP)

Sunnyvale, California, United States Corporate Functions

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Software Engineer to help build the foundation of Apple’s next-generation Generative AI platform. This role blends deep systems thinking, scalable backend development, and cutting-edge GenAI technologies such as Agentic frameworks and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). You will design and implement large-scale, secure, and highly available systems, while collaborating across teams to drive the future of intelligent experiences.

If you’re excited about building production-grade GenAI infrastructure and solving hard distributed systems problems, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact at scale.

An ideal candidate should be a strong programmer and a creative problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment, working across teams and organizations. You enjoy learning new technologies and have deep interest in either client/systems software design and programming or server side distributed system software development. You take responsibility; you feel a personal stake in the product you ship and for the end-user of it;

you communicate responsibilities and scope clearly.

• Leading effort to build large scale, distributed and highly available system and pipelines.
• Enterprise Agent Orchestration:
  Architect and implement complex, stateful multi-agent workflows using Lang Graph, Google ADK.
• Working on problems in an agentic context: distributed state persistence, message consensus between agents (A2A), and handling non-deterministic failures in long-running loops, context engineering, agentic memory
• Work with cross functional teams to drive requirements.
• Design and implement as per secure guidelines
• Work with QA to identify issues and fix it.
• Other aspects of the job include mentoring and providing feedback to junior developers, working with the team manager and PM in estimating scope and team capacity, responding to urgent requests from executives or business needs, and maintaining the stability and high reliability of our systems.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar degree or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of software engineering experience in Java or Python
• Experience in building, maintaining or enhancing RESTful web services using cloud platforms like AWS or GCP
• Extensive understanding and experience with Agentic workflows, LLM’s, RAG, and protocols like MCP, A2A
• Experience with implementation of complex agentic systems using Lang Graph, ADK, Claude Code, or similar frameworks
• Experience working and building MCP servers, extensive experience with prompt engineering and evaluations
• Experience in designing scalable, highly available distributed systems which can handle high data volumes

• Strong experience working with Gen Ai based systems Agentic frameworks (e.g., Lang Graph, ADK, AutoGPT) and RAG (Embedding, Chunking, Search).
• Experience working with RAG Data ingestion pipelines, Vector DB and data platforms
• A2A (Agent-to-Agent):
  Experience building autonomous agent ecosystems where agents negotiate, share context, and delegate tasks via standardized protocols.
• Deep understanding of REST, Graph
  
  QL and gRPC APIs, authentication (OAuth, API keys), and distributed systems
• Strong grasp of software design principles (SOLID, DRY) and testing frameworks.
• Security:
  Knowledge of "Prompt Injection”/ Guardrail defense and secure context handling (PII redaction)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills on both technical and non-technical topic.
• Ability to debug complex cross-platform issues and optimize performance.
• Ability to articulate technical concepts effectively to diverse audiences
• Self directed, self motivated and detail oriented with ability to come up with good design proposals and thorough analysis of production issues

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this role is between $181,100 and $318,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications,…