Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)

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Salary

$181K-$272K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

94% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI) Cupertino, United States of America We are looking for a Staff level Software Engineer with experience working with the latest LLM's from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Llama etc. 'and custom fine-tuned models i.e(Defog, Nous research) to help us advance our Manufacturing Systems and Operations. You will move fast prototyping ideas and experimenting with new approaches to solve existing problems better. This role will work with and across multiple organizations and functional roles to develop solutions that not only end up in production, but have a significant impact. Some solutions will be stand alone while others will be built on top of existing systems through a deep collaboration. We want someone that has experience taking an idea from the whiteboard to production and then scale it. You are going to get to do that again here. The applications we build are used daily by the people at Apple that design our products along with those that figure out how to make them at scale. This includes; Manufacturing Design Engineers, Product Designers, Mechanical Engineers, Quality Engineers, Supply Chain Managers, along with our Suppliers. We work closely with them to design and architect the best solutions for the challenges faced when making the highest quality hardware products. Minimum Qualifications: 10+ years in a senior role working across the entire tech stack with a skilled team. 10+ years building robust HTTP APIs and backend services Expert level grasp of at least 1 modern programming language: Go (preferred), Python, Java,

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