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Senior Data and Applied AI Engineer, Core Data & Intelligence

Reads like a Data Engineer role: pipelines and data infrastructure.

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What you’ll work on

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  • Build consistent, scalable data infrastructure for iCloud

  • Use data to surface relevant information to iCloud users

  • Solve hard, high-leverage problems at scale

From the employer’s posting
providing consistent, scalable, timely, accurate, complete and fully integrated data infrastructure and capabilities
accurately surface relevant information
hard, high-leverage problems at scale energize you

What you’ll bring

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Core experience

  • Strong background in distributed data processing
  • Sharp, demonstrable data intuition
Qualification wording
a strong background in distributed data processing
sharp and demonstrable data intuition

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Aug 18, 202687 days ago
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Last seen by us
Nov 13, 2026
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Aug 13, 2026

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How this job compares

Time since we first saw it

Day 87

Up longer than most. Similar jobs usually come down between day 6 and day 56.

At Apple, jobs usually come down by about day 48.

From 13,649 similar postings that came down, and 462 of Apple’s. Coming down is not always a hire.

Apple is hiring

483 open jobs

Open jobs by the week we first saw them, last 12 weeks.

  • Data Engineer hiring has slowed
  • Takes jobs down at a usual pace
  • 5% of open jobs were reposted
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Has Apple posted this job before?

Yes. We’ve followed one other Senior Data and Applied AI Engineer, Core Data & Intelligence job there since August 2026. It is still up.

  1. SeattleStill up after 94 days, first seen Aug 11
  2. This jobUp 87 days so far, first seen Aug 18

About Apple

People
About 166,000 in 2025, up 1% from the year before.Annual report (SEC Form 10-K)
Company
Listed as AAPL.
H-1B visas
1,599 approved for new hires in fiscal 2025.US Citizenship and Immigration Services
Layoff notices
Notices this year and last cover 135 people. The latest was filed April 23, 2026.State WARN notices

Demand for Data Engineer roles

New Data Engineer postings at the employers we follow are up 7% over the last 6 weeks compared with the 6 before.

Weekly new Data Engineer postings at the same employers, from the week of August 17 to the week of November 2. The fewest in a week was 860, the most 1,354, and the latest week had 1,335.
August 17Last week

Each bar is one week of new postings. The darkest bars are the last 6 weeks.

Counted from the hiring pages we’ve followed for at least five weeks, so employers we add don’t look like growth. Updated weekly.

About the role

We file this job under Data Engineer, by the work the posting describes.

Data engineers build and run the pipelines that copy data out of apps and outside services into a warehouse or lake, and fix them when a source changes or a load fails.

Expect SQL, Python, a cloud platform, a scheduler such as Airflow, and often tools for large data such as Spark or Kafka.

An analytics engineer works one step later, turning the raw data a data engineer lands into clean tables people can query.

US government figures for database architects

Median yearly pay, May 2025
$139,500
Expected change, 2025 to 2035
9.4% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs

The government has no code for data engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, database architects, which includes data integration and data warehousing specialists.

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1243.

Job description

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Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas become extraordinary products, services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you can accomplish. Would you like to shape the future of Apple's products and platform, and impact some of the most far-reaching software in the world? The Core Data & Intelligence organization builds the data, models and services that accelerate the growth of Apple's services. This role sits on the team focused on iCloud. We enable better products, features and infrastructure for iCloud users, who access all their content across apps (Photos, Mail, Messages, FaceTime, Calendar and more) from all their devices, all the time. We do that by providing consistent, scalable, timely, accurate, complete and fully integrated data infrastructure and capabilities that accurately surface relevant information. We're looking for an exceptional Data and Applied AI Engineer with a strong background in distributed data processing, sharp and demonstrable data intuition, and a passion for using data to make Apple's products and platform better. If hard, high-leverage problems at scale energize you, we'd love to hear from you.
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