Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 8, 2026. First seen by Alion on May 7, 2026. Apple scores A on the Alion truth index.
We are looking for a Staff level Software Engineer with experience working with the latest LLM’s from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Llama etc. 'and custom fine-tuned models i.e(Defog, Nous research) to help us advance our Manufacturing Systems and Operations. You will move fast prototyping ideas and experimenting with new approaches to solve existing problems better. This role will work with and across multiple organizations and functional roles to develop solutions that not only end up in production, but have a significant impact.
Some solutions will be stand alone while others will be built on top of existing systems through a deep collaboration. We want someone that has experience taking an idea from the whiteboard to production and then scale it. You are going to get to do that again here.
Description
The applications we build are used daily by the people at Apple that design our products along with those that figure out how to make them at scale. This includes; Manufacturing Design Engineers, Product Designers, Mechanical Engineers, Quality Engineers, Supply Chain Managers, along with our Suppliers. We work closely with them to design and architect the best solutions for the challenges faced when making the highest quality hardware products.
Minimum Qualifications
10+ years in a senior role working across the entire tech stack with a skilled team.
10+ years building robust HTTP APIs and backend services
Expert level grasp of at least 1 modern programming language: Go (preferred), Python, Java, etc.
Experience building solutions that leverage API’s from the latest LLMs.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with model pipeline and registry tools, detecting and preventing model drift, automating model monitoring, and ensuring model accuracy
Experience building robust evaluations for prompt optimization and tuning ML workflows
Experience with RAG and modern model in context learning techniques
Experience with SQL and database systems such as PostgreSQL
Experience with building ETL pipeline in data warehouse such as Snowflake
Manufacturing experience or exposure is a plus, but not required.