Senior Software Engineer, AI Tools - Special Projects

Job description

Apple's next generation of intelligent experiences requires new ways for engineers, designers, animators, roboticists, and researchers to explore, visualize, and shape how AI systems behave. We're looking for a senior tools engineer who can build the applications, pipelines, and creative workflows that make this possible - from interactive data visualization tools to content creation utilities, user-study data collection systems, and annotation platforms. You will develop the software that empowers Apple teams to understand complex, multi-modal data, prototype intelligent behaviors, and craft delightful user experiences. Your work will directly influence how Apple builds, evaluates, and iterates on AI-driven features across devices and platforms. Description Our team works at the intersection of hardware, software, and intelligence. We design the systems, infrastructure, and tools that enable Apple's next generation of AI-driven experiences - from on-device middleware and distributed inference platforms to large-scale data pipelines, interactive analytics, and advanced developer tooling. We collaborate closely with hardware, robotics, ML, design, and platform teams to build end-to-end solutions that are performant, intuitive, and deeply integrated into Apple's ecosystem. The work is hands-on, highly cross-disciplinary, and central to shaping how Apple's intelligent systems evolve. Responsibilities: Design and build interactive tools for data visualization, analysis, introspection, and scenario replay across multi-modal datasets Develop content creation and workflow tools for animators, designers, and roboticists, including standalone macOS/iOS/visionOS applications or integrations/plugins for 3D authoring environments Create data collection systems that support user studies, multi-device interactions, and experiment workflows Develop annotation and labeling tools that support large-scale dataset creation and evaluation Architect scalable applications that interact with real-time data pipelines and cloud-backed services Define and refine creative and technical workflows, enabling teams across product development to ideate, experiment, and iterate more effectively Work closely with AI, robotics, design, and platform teams to gather requirements, propose architectural approaches, and deliver scalable solutions Participate in architecture reviews, establish bes…