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Software Development Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Sunnyvale, California$150.4k - $277.6kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Role focused on building backend systems, web-based monitoring and visualization platforms, and intelligent automation to support multiple health user studies. Responsible for data integrity, real-time study health dashboards, and leveraging LLM-based workflows within product tools and development lifecycle. Requires leadership in design reviews, mentoring, and influencing technical/product roadmap for web tools powering health studies at Apple.

Responsibilities

  • Build backend systems and web-based monitoring/visualization tools for health studies
  • Extract insights from large and sophisticated data sets
  • Develop intelligent automation to support multiple user studies per year (ranging from tens to thousands of participants)
  • Design and build real-time monitoring and data-quality dashboards for study teams
  • Integrate OpenAI/Anthropic APIs to create richer user experiences in study tools
  • Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, influence technical/product roadmap
  • Engage with researchers, engineers, and study operations to gather requirements and prioritize improvements
  • Uphold Apple’s privacy-first policies when handling sensitive health data
  • Own the relationship between the platform and its users of study tools
  • Apply LLM-based workflows in planning, architecture, design review, implementation, PR generation, and deployment

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, or equivalent with relevant proven experience with biomedical, health, or sensitive data
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience
  • Strong software development skills, with proficiency in Python
  • Experience integrating LLM-based functionality (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic APIs) into production web tools
  • Experience leveraging LLMs in a closed-loop development workflow — from planning and architecture, to design review, to implementation, to generating pull requests, to deployment
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years in backend web service development
  • Experience building web application backends for data monitoring and visualization (e.g., Flask, FastAPI, or similar frameworks; REST APIs; serving data to frontend dashboards)
  • Demonstrated skill and experience with distributed data processing systems such as PySpark and SparkSQL
  • Experience leading design reviews, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical/product roadmaps
  • Familiarity with blob storage, elastic compute, virtual instances; experience with Delta Lake, AWS; container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar); workflow orchestration (Apache Airflow or similar) a benefit
  • Experience with tools such as Git, Docker, Jupyter notebooks, Linux command line
  • Experience with basic time series data analysis (trend detection, anomaly identification, signal processing)
  • Demonstrated ability to engage directly with tool users and stakeholders to gather requirements and translate needs into platform features
  • Experience working with sensitive or regulated data under strict privacy requirements

Skills

Required:PythonLLM integration (OpenAI, Anthropic)Web backends (Flask, FastAPI)Distributed data processing (PySpark, SparkSQL)Leadership/mentoring

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • education reimbursement (tuition)
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments (potential)
  • relocation (potential)
  • employee stock programs (discretionary RSUs, stock purchase plan)
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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