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Senior Applied AI Engineer, Agent Tools & Capabilities

Apple· Machine Learning and AI
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Cupertino, CA$150.4k - $277.6kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior role within Siri/Apple Intelligence focusing on the platform, runtime, and API abstractions that enable scalable, reliable, and privacy-preserving agentic capabilities for Siri and Apple Intelligence. Involves shaping how models reason, plan, and execute across Apple apps and services, building execution layers optimized for latency, memory, and power, and collaborating with app/framework teams to integrate tool use, planning, and real-world capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and optimize the platform and runtime powering Siri under strict latency, memory, and power constraints
  • Advance agent capabilities through systematic, data-driven experimentation
  • Drive the quality loop from early stage feature development through hillclimbing on data from the field
  • Collaborate closely with Apple’s app and frameworks teams to bring their experiences into Siri and use their requirements to shape the platform
  • Navigate ambiguity and move fast in a rapidly evolving, frontier AI space

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, with 3+ years of industry experience
  • Strong programming skills in languages like Swift, C++, Objective-C, or Python
  • Hands-on experience shipping production systems built around LLMs
  • Knowledge of agentic systems, including planning, orchestration, and multi-step tool use
  • Ability to communicate and deliver in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
  • Experience in prompt engineering, tool representation, or tool retrieval
  • Experience designing evals and improving model quality with data
  • Familiarity with App Intents or other Apple frameworks
  • Strong API design skills and a track record of building platforms for other developers
  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field

Skills

Required:Platform and runtime engineering for AI agentsExperimentation and data-driven developmentAPI design for developer platforms
Nice to have:Prompt engineering and tool representationApp Intents or Apple framework familiarity

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments (potential)
  • relocation assistance
  • Apple stock programs and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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