Job Details

AI Backend Software Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Jun 26, 2025

Role Number: 200610973

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Hardware Technology group, you'll help design and build the software infrastructure that powers our next-generation AI capabilities. You'll ensure our internal teams can seamlessly and efficiently leverage cutting-edge generative AI models to accelerate chip development and design processes. Together, you and your team will create the backend infrastructure that powers AI tools and workflows, enabling our hardware engineering teams to design the world's most advanced silicon more efficiently!
Apple is looking for a backend software engineer to enhance, develop and maintain internal AI infrastructure and deployment systems. In this highly visible role, you will build the robust backend infrastructure needed to deploy, manage, and scale generative AI models that support our chip design workflows. You will utilize your experience in software design, web application development, and distributed systems to create monitoring tools, automation systems, and web applications that accelerate our chip development processes.

Description

In this highly visible role, your primary responsibilities may include:
• Building and maintaining backend APIs and services that deploy, manage, and scale generative AI models
• Developing deployment infrastructure that transitions AI prototypes to production-ready web applications
• Creating monitoring and automation systems for AI model management and workflow orchestration
• Developing RESTful APIs and microservices for AI model integration and data processing
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable backend infrastructure for AI applications

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

• Experience with backend web development and REST APIs

• Proficiency in at least one general purpose programming language (Python, Javascript, or Go)

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, software design principles, and object-oriented programming

• Proven experience building scalable microservices web architecture

• Experience with continuous integration/deployment tools and DevOps practices

• Extensive experience with Docker or Kubernetes container orchestration

• Experience with frontend development – React and modern Javascript frameworks

• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure concepts and model serving frameworks is a plus

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