Left arrow iconBack to search

Sr. Data Engineer - Services Special Projects

Apple
Posted 19 days ago
Location

Cupertino, CA, US

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full Time

By applying, a Sonicjobs account will be created for you. Sonicjobs's Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions will apply.

SonicJobs' Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy also apply.

At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Our team is building a massive, real-time platform that transforms continuous streams of multimodal data (including structured, image, and log data) into an intelligent, searchable foundation. By enriching this data with language and embedding models, we power critical experiences for billions of Apple customers across multiple downstream applications.

Description


We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer with deep expertise in ETL/ELT, data architecture, and applied ML pipelines to design, build, and operate this infrastructure. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for creating the massively scalable pipelines that turn raw data into a trusted foundation, driving critical decision-making and operations across the entire system.

Minimum Qualifications


Masters Degree 10+ years of experience in data engineering, including building and maintaining large-scale ETL/ELT data pipelinesProficiency in data modeling, especially dimensional modeling, and designing schemas optimized for analytics and reportingExperience with leveraging databases including SQL/NoSQL Databases (including Postgres / Cassandra / Redis)Strong experience with distributed data processing frameworks including Apache Spark Strong experience with Parallel processing frameworks: BigTable/HadoopStrong software engineering fundamentals and proven experience with Scala, JavaHands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Iceberg, and Flink. Experience with workflow orchestration tools including Apache Airflow and BeamExperience with AWS: e.g., S3, EMR, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, BigQuery, Kinesis, or similar servicesExperience with Analytics frameworks including Trino (Presto, BigQuery, Snowflake)Hands-on experience with big data lake architecturesExperience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS) and CI/CD tooling including Jenkins Experience in Python and PySparkFamiliarity with graph databases such as TigerGraphExperience building pipelines that process multimodal data (structured and image) and integrate ML model inference - including LLMs and embedding models - for data enrichment and transformationHands-on experience deploying, serving, and optimizing LLMs or ML models directly in the production, inference runtimes/compilers (ONNX Runtime, TensorRT/TensorRT-LLM), and serving frameworks (Triton, vLLM, TorchServe or similar). Experience tuning batching, KV-cache, and GPU utilization for low-latency, high-throughput real-time inference in a data pipelineKnowledge of data governance principles, data security best practices, and data privacy regulations

Preferred Qualifications


Experience with data versioning tools and frameworks (e.g., DVC, Delta Lake)Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindsetExperience storing/serving embeddings (e.g., pgvector, Milvus, FAISS)



Learn more about this Employer on their Career Site

Apply now in a few quick clicks

By applying, a Sonicjobs account will be created for you. Sonicjobs's Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions will apply.

SonicJobs' Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy also apply.